Towards a dynamic-update-enabled JVM

Proceedings of the Workshop on AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution, RAM-SE'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gregersen, Allan Raundahl ^a   Simon, Douglas ^b   Jørgensen, Bo Nørregaard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic software updates; Java; Virtual machine research

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT BASED; DE FACTO; DYNAMIC SOFTWARE UPDATE; DYNAMIC UPDATE; JAVA; JAVA APPLICATIONS; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; MODULE SYSTEMS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70450278896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1562860.1562862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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