Resolving feature convolution in middleware systems

19th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 188-205

  Zhang, Charles ^a   Jacobsen, Hans Arno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspect Oriented Middleware; Middleware Architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ASPECT ORIENTED MIDDLEWARE; FEATURE ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; HORIZONTAL DECOMPOSITION (HD); MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 12844282173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028976.1028992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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