Some" non-" or" extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy
modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes such features hard to …

Software contracts have proven to play an important role for the development of robust
software. Contract systems are widely adopted in statically typed languages and are …

The increasing significance of Service Level Management (SLM) strongly requires an
appropriate instrumentation of application components in order to monitor compliance with …

Quality of service (QoS) management has become an important requirement for middleware
platforms and distributed applications. Early QoS engineering attempts focused on single …

Dynamic loading of code is needed when rarely used code should be loaded on demand or
when the code to be loaded is not known in advance. In distributed systems it can also be …

Abstract Im Bereich der Informationstechnik ist die Adaption von Software an veränderte
Gegebenheiten und Umgebungen ein wichtiges Thema. Dabei bestimmen vor allem die …

We address a key issue that arises in run-time recomposition of software: the transfer of
nontransient state between old components and their replacements. We focus on the …

In der hier zusammengefassten Dissertation geht es um die Analyse, den Entwurf und die
Implementierung von maßgeschneiderter Systemsoftware, wie sie beispielsweise im …

This dissertation examines how the architectural layering of middleware constrains the
design of a middleware security architecture, and analyses the complications that arise from …

For the development of CORBA applications, an IDL compiler is needed that generates code
for communication stubs, helper classes and implementation skeletons. For each IDL …