Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in b...
Programmers tend to avoid using language tools, resorting to ad-hoc methods, because tools can be hard to use, their parsing strategies can be difficult to understand and debug, a...
Recently, the C# and the VISUAL BASIC communities were tantalized by the advent of LINQ [18]--the Language INtegrated Query technology from Microsoft. LINQ represents a set of lan...
Block joinpoints allow programmers to explicitly mark regions of base code as “to be advised”, thus avoiding the need to extract the block into a method just for the sake of c...
Writing patterns is a very important task for leveraging knowledge within an organization or in the software engineering community as a whole. Patterns are more than text, diagram...