The European Component Oriented Architecture (ECOA) is an open specification for a software framework for mission system software comprising components that are both realtime and service-oriented...
Starting in 2008, the European Component Oriented Architecture (ECOA) research programme is a collaboration between industrial partners and is jointly funded by the UK and French Ministries of Defence...
The objective of the research is to reduce the cost and timescales for production and modification of complex real-time aircraft software systems, by facilitating software portability and reuse.