Connecting real-time and non-real-time components

In this paper we focus on the connections between bothcomponent types. We draft a buffer component which represents a non-real-time component in the real-time container.This component allows using non-real-time component's complex services from real-time components, without giv-ing up the real-time. 1 Introduction In the COMQUAD Project (COMponents with QUantitativeproperties and ADaptivity) we want to investigate technologies for components with non-functional properties [2, 5].Examples for these properties are latency bounds for services, memory usage, or disk bandwidth.Instead of developing `yet another'(TM) component technology, we decided to adapt existing technology, in our case asubset of EJB [6], based on the JBoss implementation [10]