This framework includes the Java execution framework for communicating components. Its main features are:

• concurrent Java application: the services are implemeted by threads over their (static) finite state machine description, the channels also use threads to wake up the processes waiting for communication data.
• in the base implementation, the communications are synchronous and the channels hold 1-bound buffers.
• the component have a complex life cycle, since a component can be a composite, which enable to creat and configure the component instances alo,ng the composition hierarchy, before running self-controlled components and calling services.
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