Towards the Generation of Correct Java Programs (Research Poster)

Proof assistants such as Coq [1] can be used to develop very high assurance software such as a verified C compiler [2] and verified high performance computing programs [3]. Even when not used for a full system, using such a proof assistant to develop critical parts of a system could be interesting, for example security monitors [4] or the reconfiguration mechanism of a component based system. Our goal is to design a plugin for Coq to be able to generate directly Java code from a Coq development in such a way that the generated code can be customized to the programming style (static, object) used in the Java development. We plan to use such code for security monitors, component based systems, high performance computing, and big data applications. We present what our system can currently generate and discuss further extensions, in particular keeping in mind that eventually we want to formally prove that the generated Java code preserves the semantics of the initial Coq code.