Activecase - Tool for Design of Concurrent Object-oriented Applications

Object-oriented concurrent programming is a methodology that seems to satisfy nowadays requirements for complex application development. Issues like inheritance anomalies or developing of object models that integrate in a natural way concurrent programming elements with object-oriented concepts was intensely analyzed in literature. Construction of a consistent modeling mechanism that ameliorates the inheritance anomalies as much as possible represents the main goal of our research work ([13], [14]). This paper presents the implementation of this modeling mechanism into a CASE tool for analysis and design of concurrent object-oriented applications. Developing specific scalable statecharts for behavior modeling of active objects and automatic code generation are subsequent issues that are attend to validate the executability of our mechanism.