Integrating meta-information management and reflection in middleware

Proceedings - DOA 2000: International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 133-143

  Costa, F M ^a,b   Blair, G S ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Inspection; Middleware; Multimedia systems; Production facilities; Reflection; Runtime

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INSPECTION; MIDDLEWARE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REFLECTION;

META INFORMATION; MIDDLEWARE PLATFORMS; MULTI MODEL; PRODUCTION FACILITY; RUNTIMES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84952305652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DOA.2000.874185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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