Over recent years, "Internet-able" applications have been used to support domains where distributed functionality is essential. This flexibility is also pertinent in situ...
Approaches to enforcing communication integrity in the implementation, exemplified by ArchJava, consider only architectural constraints, without taking into account the late integ...
We present our Component-Based Agent Framework, which enables a software engineer to design a set of agents by using a visual compo nent-based toolkit (Sun’s BDK), and wiring tog...
Development environments based on ActiveX controls and JavaBeans are marketed as "visual programming" platforms; in practice their visual dimension is limited to the des...
Abstract. Recently, component-based application developments to improve the software productivity and reusability have attracted our attention. The components are parts for buildin...