Acknowledgments

Many people helped and advised us in the course of writing this book. Rebecca Wirfs-Brock carefully reviewed the manuscript. Her detailed hints and suggestions led to significant improvements. We would also like to thank Alan Wills and Mohamed Fayad for their helpful comments on an early version of the manuscript.

Timothy Brown, a computer science graduate from Washington University in St. Louis, not only corrected the English but also provided many useful ideas. Timothy Brown and Alessandro Pasetti co-authored Chapter 7. Several other colleagues helped us by reviewing parts of the manuscript and providing helpful feedback, including Lothar Schmitz, Heinrich Hussmann, Birgit Demuth, and Ljiljana D hring. Thanks also go to the students of Wolfgang Pree's software architecture course at the University of California, Berkeley in the Fall semester 2000.

We thank Carlos Lucena, Edward Hermann Haeusler, Sergio Carvalho, Julio Leite (all at Pontif cia Universidade Cat lica PUC, Rio de Janeiro); Donald Cowan, Paulo Alencar (at the University of Waterloo); and Marcos Borges at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. They made excellent comments on and contributions to a previous version of this work (Fontoura, 1999).

Special thanks go to Andrew Appel (Princeton University), and to Thomas K. Truong, Norm Pass, and Anant Jhingran (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA) for their support regarding this work.

Finally, it was a pleasure to cooperate with the people from Addison-Wesley: Alison Birtwell, J. Carter Shanklin, Katherin Ekstrom, Claudia Orrell, and the copy editor Derek Atkins.

This work was partially funded by Nokia and the Bayerisches Staatsministerium f r Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst under the Habilitation-F rderpreis Programm, by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung under the FORSOFT research consortium, and the Bundesministerium f r Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) under the Virtual Software Engineering Competence Center (ViSEK).



The UML Profile for Framework Architectures
The UML Profile for Framework Architectures
ISBN: 0201675188
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 84

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