A middleware layer for flexible and cost-efficient multi-tenant applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7049 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 370-389

  Walraven, Stefan ^a   Truyen, Eddy ^a   Joosen, Wouter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dependency injection; Google App Engine; Multi tenancy; Software as a Service

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DESIGN; APPLICATION ENGINEERING; COST-EFFICIENT; DEPENDENCY INJECTION; MIDDLEWARE COMPONENTS; MIDDLEWARE LAYER; MULTI TENANTS; MULTI-TENANCY; OPERATIONAL COSTS; SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE; SUPPORT LAYER; APPLICATION LEVEL; GOOGLE APP ENGINES; MULTI TENANCIES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COSTS; METADATA; COST ENGINEERING; ENGINES; MIDDLEWARE; PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS); SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS); WEB SERVICES;

MIDDLEWARE; APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 83755228980     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25821-3_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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