A component- and message-based architectural style for gui software

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 390-406

  Taylor, Richard N ^a,b   Medvidovic, Nenad ^a,b   Kenneth, M ^a,b   Anderson, ^a,b   James Whitehead Jr , E ^a,b   Bobbins, Jason E ^a,b   Nies, Kari A ^a,b   Oreizy, Peyman ^a,b   Dubrow, Deborah L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Architectural styles; Concurrency; Graphical user interfaces (guis); Heterogeneity; Message based architectures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000465860     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.508313     Document Type: Article

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