An Elevator as a Running Example

For the description of FeatureIDE’s functionality, we use the running example of an elevator. Elevator systems can appear in multiple variations, such as different scheduling algorithms, or security properties. In this chapter, we explain a simple elevator system with a specific scheduling algorithm. The system is used as a basis in the later chapters to implement an elevator product line. This chapter has two goals. First, it should familiarize with the default functionalities of Java in Eclipse. And second, we introduce the initial elevator implementation that will be used and extended in the proceeding of this book.