AntiPatterns: refactoring software, architectures, and projects in crisis
AntiPatterns: refactoring software, architectures, and projects in crisis
Structured graph format: XML metadata for describing Web site structure
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Determinants of program repair maintenance requirements
Communications of the ACM
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Component Metadata for Software Engineering Tasks
EDO '00 Revised Papers from the Second International Workshop on Engineering Distributed Objects
Managing Heterogeneous Resources in Data Mining Applications on Grids Using XML-Based Metadata
IPDPS '03 Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Automated Support for Framework-Based Software Evolution
ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
JUnit in Action
Hibernate in Action (In Action series)
Hibernate in Action (In Action series)
Using Pointcut Delta Analysis to Support Evolution of Aspect-Oriented Software
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Automatically generating refactorings to support API evolution
PASTE '05 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Queue - Component Technologies
Reflective program generation with patterns
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts
Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts
Expressive and safe static reflection with MorphJ
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Controlled evolution of adaptive programs
Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops
Pointcut Rejuvenation: Recovering Pointcut Expressions in Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software
ASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Using annotations to check structural properties of classes
FASE'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference, held as part of the joint European Conference on Theory and Practice of Software conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Morphing: safely shaping a class in the image of others
ECOOP'07 Proceedings of the 21st European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Tackling pointcut fragility with dynamic annotations
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution
Reusing non-functional concerns across languages
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development
Metadata invariants: checking and inferring metadata coding conventions
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
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An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a number of limitations that complicate the development and maintenance of enterprise applications. Their key problem is that they make it impossible to reuse metadata specifications not only across different applications but even across smaller program constructs such as classes or methods. To provide better enterprise metadata, we present pattern-based structural expressions (PBSE), a novel metadata representation that offers conciseness and maintainability advantages and is reusable. To apply PBSE to enterprise applications, we translate PBSE specifications to Java annotations, with annotating classes automatically as an intermediate build step. We demonstrate the advantages of the new metadata format by assessing its conciseness and reusability, as compared to XML and annotations, in the task of expressing metadata of J2EE reference applications and a mid-size, commercial, enterprise application.