The Case for Reflective Middleware

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 33-38

  Kon, Fabio ^b   Costa, Fabio ^b   Blair, Gordon ^b   Campbell, Roy H ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0013362230     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/508448.508470     Document Type: Article

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