A prototypical platform for architecture oriented development

For several years, researchers have required the development of complex systems to be based on architectural models. Nevertheless, popular programming environments offer architecture related concepts, e.g. components and connectors, only as mere additions to object oriented programming. As a consequence, software is often cluttered with add-ons that are not application related. An important reason for sticking with object oriented languages seem to be indispensable features like encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. Therefore, it seems desirable to integrate these features into a programming model which, at the same time, offers built-in concepts for architecture oriented development. This paper presents a prototypical development platform which follows this idea. It is not based on objects but on the fundamental modeling concepts (FMC). As a special feature, it transparently integrates and enforces data consistency rules for distributed, concurrent systems