%T A Development Method Boosted by Synchronous Active Objects
%A  Claude Petitpierre
%E  Jan F. Broenink,  Gerald H. Hilderink
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2003
%X This paper presents a novel development method for
   interactive and distributedapplications. The benefit that
   this method provides is that the design gives clearguidance
   towards the implementation. The method is based on three
   mainelements: a concept of synchronous active objects that
   is closely related to thatfound in CSP; the Java
   environment; and a selection of the diagrams defined byUML.
   This approach alleviates many of the most serious problems
   that areencountered when using GUI builders, which hide the
   application structures andso make it difficult to devise
   sound architectures. The final part of the paper
   brieflydescribes an application generator that will help a
   developer to implement a designwhich is developed according
   to the approach advocated here.