We've discussed differences between parallel, computational systems and concurrent, event handling systems. Areas of differences include:
Determinism: desirable vs impossible
Sign of parallel safety: same results vs correct results
Parallelism bugs: easy to pinpoint vs impossible to define
Queues: implementation detail vs part of the interface
Preemption: nearly useless vs nearly essential
The mission of the edtf project is to develop a lightweight and easy to use open-source Event Driven Testing / Monitoring Framework based on XTemp / ATML standards, with a first application on BPEL testing / monitoring.