On the role of middleware in architecture-based software development

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 27, Issue , 2002, Pages 299-306

  Medvidovic, Nenad ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPONENT COMPOSITION; COMPONENT INTEROPERABILITY; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT; LESSONS LEARNED; MIDDLEWARE PLATFORMS; MIDDLEWARE STANDARD; MIDDLEWARE TECHNOLOGY; MODELING POWER; RESEARCH AGENDA; SOFTWARE CONNECTORS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MIDDLEWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33846497739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/568760.568814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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