RCS—a system for version control
Software—Practice & Experience
Release-to-release binary compatibility in SOM
Proceedings of the tenth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
A generic, peer-to-peer repository for distributed configuration management
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
Inside COM
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
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Modules, abstract types, and distributed versioning
POPL '01 Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
The C++ Programming Language, Third Edition
The C++ Programming Language, Third Edition
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series
Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series
The Java Language Specification
The Java Language Specification
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
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
Adaptable Binary Programs
Automatic program transformation with JOIE
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
CORBA: integrating diverse applications within distributed heterogeneous environments
IEEE Communications Magazine
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CD '02 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM Working Conference on Component Deployment
Themes in information-rich functional programming for internet-scale data sources
DDFP '13 Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Data driven functional programming
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The promises of object-orientation and distributed computing could be delivered if the software we needed were written in stone. But it isn't, it changes. The challenge of distributed object-oriented maintenance is to find a means of evolving software, which already has a distributed client base.Working within this scenario, we observe how certain object-oriented language systems seek to support differing client requirements and service obligations. In particular, we examine how the Java Language Specification (JLS) facilitates the concept of binary compatibility, a useful property, but one that may introduce a class of clients who dare not re-compile! Following a suggestion in the new draft JLS, we describe our tool to manage distributed version control and we formulate some proposals for future developments.