Roadmap for SOA event processing and service execution in real-time using Timber

The introduction of Service Oriented Architectures for monitoring and control involves the deployment of SOA onto lightweight devices (e.g., embedded controllers for sensors and actuators). For the use of SOA in applications where timing and dependability are important, it becomes crucial that SOA event processing and service implementations are robust and time bound for a given platform. To this end, formalisms and tools aiding the design is instrumental. In this paper, we present a roadmap for a SOA based on components using the modeling and programming paradigm of Timber. Our vision is to present Timber based software components as services. By using current standards for service descriptions and eventing we will facilitate interoperability with legacy systems. We will develop a compiler tool suit allowing Timber based services to be deployable onto lightweight resource constrained platforms (e.g., sensors and actuators for industrial use). Our goal is to provide design time guarantees on e.g., robustness (safety and liveness), timing properties, and resource utilization for the complete embedded system comprising SOA event communication, event processing together with the service implementations.