— Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is introduced to shorten the software development time, produce better quality of code and promote the reuse of software artifacts. On the other...
More and more software projects are using COTS (Commercialoff-the-shelf) components. Using COTS components brings both advantages and risks. To manage some risks in using COTS com...
Synchronization is a good candidate for an aspect in aspectoriented programming (AOP) since programmers have to choose the best granularity of synchronization for the underlying h...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
Connectors have emerged as a powerful concept for composition and coordination of concurrent activities encapsulated as components and services. Compositional coordination models a...
Farhad Arbab, Tom Chothia, Sun Meng, Young-Joo Moo...