RCS—a system for version control
Software—Practice & Experience
A generic, peer-to-peer repository for distributed configuration management
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
Reuse contracts: managing the evolution of reusable assets
Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Maintaining the consistency of class libraries during their evolution
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
What is Java binary compatibility?
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Versioned software architecture
ISAW '98 Proceedings of the third international workshop on Software architecture
Modules, abstract types, and distributed versioning
POPL '01 Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series
Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series
Operating System Concepts
ECCOP '98 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Distributed Revision Control Via the World Wide Web
ICSE '96 Proceedings of the SCM-6 Workshop on System Configuration Management
Distributed Configuration Management via Java and the World Wide Web
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the SCM-7 Workshop on System Configuration Management
An Abstract Model of Java Dynamic Linking and Loading
TIC '00 Selected papers from the Third International Workshop on Types in Compilation
A Fragment Calculus Towards a Model of Separate Compilation, Linking and Binary Compatibility
LICS '99 Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
FTDCS '99 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Adaptable Binary Programs
Automatic program transformation with JOIE
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A flexible model for dynamic linking in Java and C#
Theoretical Computer Science
Flexible models for dynamic linking
ESOP'03 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Programming
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A major challenge of maintaining object-oriented programs is to find a means of evolving software that already has a distributed client base. This should be easier for Java developers than for most, because dynamic linking has been designed into the runtime system.It turns out however that things are not so straightforward as they seem, since a given modification can leave a remote client in one of a number of states, not all of which are tolerable, let alone desirable. In this paper we attempt to delineate these states, and to consider ways of avoiding the worst of them. We describe our utility, which offers library developers a transparent version control system, to protect their remote clients.