Name
Abstract | ||
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Reuse in object-oriented languages typically focuses on inheritance. Numerous techniques have been developed to provide finer-grained reuse of methods, such as flavors, mixins and traits. These techniques, however, only deal with reuse at the level of classes. Class-based reuse is inherently static. Increasing use of reflection and meta-programming techniques in real world applications underline the need for more dynamic approaches. New approaches have shifted to object-specific reuse. However, these techniques fail to provide a complete solution to the composition issues arising during reuse. We propose a new approach that deals with reuse at the object level and that supports behavioral composition. We introduce a new abstraction called a talent which models features that are shared between objects of different class hierarchies. Talents provide a composition mechanism that is as flexible as that of traits but which is dynamic. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1145/2166929.2166940 | IWST |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
dynamic approach,composition mechanism,dynamically composable unit,composition issue,class-based reuse,behavioral composition,finer-grained reuse,object level,new approach,complete solution,new abstraction,object oriented language,meta programming,reflection | Underline,Abstraction,Programming language,Reuse,Computer science,Smalltalk,Hierarchy | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 21 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jorge Ressia | 1 | 43 | 4.74 |
| Tudor Gîrba | 2 | 456 | 26.89 |
| Oscar Nierstrasz | 3 | 2404 | 346.86 |
| Fabrizio Perin | 4 | 28 | 4.12 |
| Lukas Renggli | 5 | 170 | 12.95 |