A model for structuring user documentation of object-oriented frameworks using patterns and hypertext

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

Volumn 1241, Issue , 1997, Pages 496-510

  Meusel, Matthias ^a   Czarnecki, Krzysztof ^a   Köpf, Wolfgang ^a  

^a DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

FORMAL APPROACH; ITS ARCHITECTURE; OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORKS; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; REUSABLE COMPONENTS; SINGLE STRUCTURE; TYPICAL APPLICATION; USER DOCUMENTATIONS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84947929733     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0053392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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