Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems
cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) …

Many important applications must run continuously and without interruption, yet must be
changed to fix bugs or upgrade functionality. No prior general-purpose methodology for …

Many important applications must run continuously and without interruption, and yet also
must be changed to fix bugs or upgrade functionality. No prior general-purpose …

Despite all of its technical innovation, SOM was not a financial success. 1 In 1996, Java
pushed SOM out of the marketplace. Allowing those innovations to be lost was …

Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply
changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this …

Distributed systems are often modeled by objects that run concurrently, each with its own
processor, and communicate by synchronous remote method calls. This may be satisfactory …

This paper presents POLUS, a software maintenance tool capable of iteratively evolving
running software into newer versions. POLUS's primary goal is to increase the dependability …

Dynamic code evolution is a technique to update a program while it is running. In an object-
oriented language such as Java, this can be seen as replacing a set of classes by new …

Application update at run‐time remains a challenging issue in software engineering. There
are many techniques with different evaluation metrics, resulting in different behaviours in the …

Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program
without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level …