Refactoring Middleware with Aspects

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1058-1073

  Zhang, Charles ^a   Jacobsen, Hans Arno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspect analysis; Aspect oriented programming; Aspects; Middleware; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA MINING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; ASPECT-ORIENTED REFACTORING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0347527091     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2003.1247668     Document Type: Article

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