Dynamic update of Java applications - Balancing change flexibility vs programming transparency

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-112

  Gregersen, Allan Raundahl ^a   Jørgensen, Bo Nørregaard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dynamic update; Software evolution; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

BYTECODE TRANSFORMATIONS; CLASS LOADINGS; COMPLEX APPLICATIONS; COMPONENT APPLICATIONS; DEPLOYMENT TIME; DYNAMIC UPDATE; JAVA APPLICATIONS; LOW OVERHEADS; NETBEANS; PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS; RICH CLIENT PLATFORMS; RICH CLIENTS; RUN-TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; TRANSPARENCY;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 63849136008     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.406     Document Type: Article

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