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                desc="Eclipse POOSL comes with an integrated editing, debugging and validation environment combined with a high-speed simulation engine.
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            title="Support of POOSL language"                
            desc="<p>The Parallel Object-Oriented Specification Language (POOSL) is a very expressive and specialized <a href='https://www.es.ele.tue.nl/poosl/'>language</a> to model concurrent hardware/software systems.</p>
        <p>The language is structured into three layers:
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            <li>Object-oriented data structures: atomic deterministic operations.</li>
            <li>Hierarchical architecture: composition of interacting parallel processes.</li>
            <li>Non-deterministic process behavior: internal data, synchronous communication and discrete time.</li>
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            desc="<p>The edit view allows a user to edit POOSL process and data classes textually.</p>
        <p>The editor supports key features that are expected from a modern IDE, such as<ul><li>
        syntax highlighting,</li><li>content assist,</li><li>quick fixes,</li><li>validation,</li><li>formatting,</li><li>navigation,</li><li>and refactoring/renaming.</li></ul></p>"
        
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            title="Composite Structure Diagram"                
            desc="<p>Some users may prefer a graphical view for adding and connecting POOSL processes and clusters, or just to understand what a given system architecture looks like.</p>
        <p>This is all possible using the composite structure diagram.</p>
        <p>The graphical representation in the composite structure diagram is synchronized with the edit view at all times, allowing the user to seemlessly switch between editing in the two views.</p>"       
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            desc="<p>Class diagrams can be generated to illustrate the relation between POOSL classes and showing the methods and a parameters that are available for each class.</p>
            <p>It is also possible to edit and add new classes, methods, and parameters graphically and having the appropriate POOSL code being added automatically in the synchronized edit view.</p>"
        
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            desc="<p>The debug view facilitates efficient debugging by allowing a user to go through a simulation step-by-step or to execute to specified breakpoints.</p>
            <p>While the system is simulated in this view, it is possible to view interactions between POOSL processes in an automatically generated sequence diagram.</p>
            <p>It is also possible to visualize the execution in a communication diagram, which displays message communications on top of a composite structure diagram.</p>"
        
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