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I-Java: An Extension of Java with Incomplete Objects and Object Composition

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I-Java: An Extension of Java with Incomplete Objects and Object Composition
Object composition is often advocated as a more flexible alternative to standard class inheritance since it takes place at run-time, thus permitting the behavior of objects to be specialized dynamically. In this paper we present I-Java, an extension of the Java language with a form of incomplete objects, i.e., objects with some missing methods which can be provided at run-time by composition with another (complete) object. Therefore, we can exploit object composition as a linguistic construct, instead of resorting to a manual implementation. This work builds on our theoretical model of incomplete objects, which was proved typesafe.
Lorenzo Bettini, Viviana Bono, Erica Turin
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where SOCO
Authors Lorenzo Bettini, Viviana Bono, Erica Turin
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