An environment for generating visual applications involving real-time remote procedure calls

The Visual Environment for the Development of Real-Time Parallel Programs (http://www.dc.ufscar.br/~tev) has been designed to facilitate the change from the sequential to the parallel paradigm. This graphic environment enables the fast prototyping of parallel applications executed in the real-time operating system Virtuoso from Eonic Systems Inc (http://www.eonic.com). Such parallel applications run on a parallel machine making intensive calculations and interacting with the outside world through a text-based local terminal. However, with the advance of the Internet it has been possible to develop programs capable of remotely executing, manipulating and monitoring such applications. This paper focuses on the GUI Generator with Support to Real-Time Remote Procedure Calls which aims at managing the development of visual Java applications able to manipulate, at distance, real-time parallel programs through remote procedure calls that respect time requirements and guarantee the atomicity of the remote execution