TINA-ODL and Component Based Design

Advanced design methods are needed to fulfill the increasing requirements of telecommunication service development. For a design method the relevant concepts for the application domain have to be defined, a supporting notation has to be declared and finally rules have to be developed to map design models to supporting runtime environments. The TINA-Consortium has made the attempt to define a concept space for the design of distributed telecommunication applications (Computational Modelling Concepts) and a supporting notation for these concepts (TINA-ODL). In this contribution we will show how ODL can serve as a starting point for the definition of a component-based design method which overcomes limitations and restrictions of the ODL language. Furthermore, a language mapping to the SDL-2000 language is presented.