Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and administr...
Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisnie...
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
Web applications facilitated by technologies such as JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, and Flash use a considerable amount of dynamic web content that is either inaccessible or unusable by...
Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman, I....
As object-oriented class libraries evolve, classes are occasionally deprecated in favor of others with roughly the same functionality. In Java’s standard libraries, for example,...
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...