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The requirement for higher reliability and availability of systems is continuously increasing even in domains not traditionally strongly involved in such issues. Solutions are expected to be efficient, flexible, reusable on rapidly evolving hardware and of course at low cost. Model driven approaches can be very helpful for this purpose. In this paper, we propose a study associating model-driven technology and component-based development. This work is illustrated by the realization of a use case from aerospace industry that has fault-tolerance requirements: a launch vehicle.

UML based modeling is used to capture application structure and related non-functional requirements thanks to the profiles CCM (CORBA Component Model) and QoS&FT (Quality of Service and Fault Tolerance). The application model is enriched with infrastructure component dedicated to fault-tolerance. From this model we …