Architectural patterns describe reusable architectural fragments that have proven valuable in a range of system contexts. While their impact on software practice has been significant, their application has been limited to the early stages of the software lifecycle. In this paper, we present an approach to reinforcing the productivity and reliability benefits provided by architectural patterns a...

The EHCI’98 Workshop on Requirements of Groupware Development Tools examined six groupware applications in order to derive requirements for tools for developing groupware. We hope that these requirements will be useful to designers of new tools in motivating what features their tools should have.

Globalisation has created a situation of increased international competition, which puts companies under pressure to compete in the value added to customers. This paper presents an integrated framework for product design and development in distributed and collaborative environments. The proposed system integrates the software tools and resources in the design process to enable geographically di...

The market’s demands intensify the search for quality in software development and, as a result, it makes that even more companies adopt models in order to improve their software processes and, consequently, their final product. In addition to this, the time for product delivery can be significantly reduced when proper tools for a quicker evolution of the process are adopted. This paper presents...

This papers shows how to tackle the problem of ever larger languages and of the combination of multiple languages. The central idea is the foundation of the language definition by a metamodel driven approach that is supported by language engineering tools. Thus the development and the further evolution of languages will be transformed from the traditional paper-and-pen style into an engineering...

W eb mashups 1 are Web applications generated by combining content, presentation, or application functionality from disparate Web sources. They aim to combine these sources to create useful new applications or services. Content and presentation elements typically come in the form of RSS or Atom feeds, various XML formats, or as HTML, ShockWave Flash (SWF), or other graphical elements. Publicly ...

PRACTIONIST (PRACTIcal reasONIng sySTem) [1] is a suite of tools including (see figure 1): (i) a methodology, consisting of a UML-based modelling language (PAML) and an iterative and incremental development process, (ii) the PRACTIONIST runtime and framework (PRF), which defines and supports the execution logic and provides the builtin components according to such a logic to support the develop...

This paper discusses the experience of teaching Java and Extreme Programming(XP) practices to seniors and masters students familiar with C/C++ in a three credit hour course. Our Software Design and Development course teaches Java and development tools such as JUnit, CVS and Ant as students learn XP and complete both a practice project and an external customer project. The Model-View-Controller ...