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PBS: The Portable Bookshelf - Introduction

The Software Bookshelf is a web-based paradigm for the presentation and navigation of information representing large software systems. The Portable Bookshelf (PBS) is one implementation of this concept. The PBS Toolkit is our set of tools for the generation of a PBS Bookshelf.

Major links to the toolkit, supporting documents, and other information are listed in the table of contents frame at left.

The foundation of the Software Bookshelf concept is discussed in detail in two papers:

The Software Bookshelf, P. Finnigan, R. Holt, I. Kalas, S. Kerr, K. Kontogiannis, H. Mueller, J. Mylopoulos, S. Perelgut, M. Stanley, and K. Wong. IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 564-593, November 1997.
The IBM System Journal article which introduced the Software Bookshelf concept.
Software Bookshelf: Overview and Construction.
This paper describes how architecture information can be extracted from software systems for presentation on the web.

More papers, reports, and student projects are available by following the papers and projects link.

Various example bookshelves are available for you to investigate and navigate.

The full toolkit is available for download. And documentation for this toolkit is available here.

Ric Holt
holt@uwaterloo.ca
PBS @ SWAG
pbs@swag.uwaterloo.ca