— The multi-tier implementation has become the industry standard for developing scalable client-server enterprise applications. Since these applications are performance sensitive...
Skype is a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) voice over IP (VoIP) application evolving quickly since its launch in 2003. However, the ability to traverse network address translation (NAT...
A significant deterrent to the ability to connect in a spontaneous manner in cross-enterprise collaborative applications is the difficulty in users from different domains being ab...
In multi-tier enterprise systems, application servers are key components to implement business logic and provide services. To support a large number of simultaneous accesses from ...
This paper describes an environment for interactive configuration management of the software components comprising a distributed enterprise application. The environment permits on...