The distributed development and maintenance paradigm for component delivery is fraught with problems. One wants a relationship between developers and clients that is autonomous an...
Component platforms play a major role in current distributed information systems. As these systems evolve, components need to be upgraded without breaking the consistency of compo...
Modern applications distributed across networks such as the Internet may need to evolve without compromising application availability. Object systems are well suited for runtime up...
Abstract. Plugins are optional components which can be used to enable the dynamic construction of flexible and complex systems, passing as much of the configuration management ef...
Abstract. Ada 95 has been the first standardized language to include distribution in the core language itself. However, the set of features required by the Distributed Systems Ann...