Towards a taxonomy of software connectors

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 178-187

  Mehta, Nikunj R ^a   Medvidovic, Nenad ^a   Phadke, Sandeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE CONNECTOR;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033712899     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1145/337180.337201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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