A SOA-Based Embedded Systems Development Environment for Industrial Automation

Currently available tool-sets for the development of embedded systems adopt traditional architectural styles and do not cover the whole requirements of the development process, with extensibility being the major drawback. In this paper, a service-oriented architectural framework that exploits semantic web is defined. Features required in the development process are defined as web services and published into the public domain, so as to be used on demand by developers to construct their projects' specific Integrated Development Environments (IDEs).