Over the past several years, with the advent of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) [10] and the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) [14], Service-Oriented Architectures...
Techniques that emphasize software reuse and scalability are becoming more important than ever. In this paper we present a component-basedmodel for continuous-mediaapplications. C...
Traditionally, application software developers carry out their tests on their own local development databases. However, such local databases usually have only a small number of sa...
Modifying an application usually means to stop the application, apply the changes, and start the application again. That means, the application is not available for at least a sho...
A business application automates a collection of business processes. A business process describes how a set of logically related tasks are executed, ordered and managed by followi...