Although software reuse can improve both the quality and productivity of software development, it will not do so until software developers stop believing that it is not worth thei...
: This paper describes JCCap, a protection facility for cooperating applications in the context of Java Card. It enables the control of access rights between mutually suspicious ap...
In object oriented programming, it is sometimes necessary to copy objects and to compare them for equality or inequality. We discuss some of the issues involved in copying and comp...
The support for precise exceptions in Java, combined with frequent checks for runtime exceptions, leads to severe limitations on the compiler’s ability to perform program optimiz...
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...