• Although a modular approach to designing your federate is highly desirable, "over-engineering" your federate from a perspective of object-oriented design (i.e. many levels of inheritance) may have performance implications.
2.5.5 Validating Your Federate As a result of adapting your simulation to use the HLA, you have very likely made significant changes to your simulation or at least to the structure of the application that implements your simulation.