Meta-Environment 2.0, Release Candidate 2 is online, and SDF 2.4 released

See ReleaseNotes for a description of the next release candidate of the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment. With this release, SDF 2.4 was also released. This release candidate is the first to supply a binary installer for Linux/i386. See also:

• ReleaseNotes
• Downloads for source distribution of The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0 RC2
• Downloads for binary linux installer of The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0 RC2

ATerms in Top Ten most cited Software Engineering Papers

The January issue of the journal Information and Software Technology publishes a list of most cited articles in software engineering that were published in the year 2000. The original ATerm article ("Efficient Annotated Terms", M.G.J. van den Brand, H.A. de Jong, P. Klint and P.A. Olivier, Software-Practice and Experience 30 (3):259-291 Mar 2000) appears on the sixth position. A follow-up paper describing applications of ATerms appears in that same journal and can be found at ATerms for manipulation and exchange of structured data: It's all about sharing.

Plugin Architecture

Hayco de Jong defends his dissertation at the Universiteit van Amsterdam on component technology with its application to the infra-structure of The Meta-Environment.

See also:

• ICTregie.nl
• http://www.metamud.org/~jong