A component-based approach to online software evolution

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-205

  Wang, Qianxiang ^a   Shen, Junrong ^a   Wang, Xiaopeng ^a,b   Mei, Hong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Software Technologies Joint Lab ^*

Author keywords

Application server; Component implementation; Component interface; J2EE; Online evolution; Software component

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SERVER; J2EE; ONLINE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE COMPONENT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; FUNCTIONS; SERVERS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745333983     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.324     Document Type: Article

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