The second-class formulation of generics in Java 5.0 discards generic type information during compilation. As a result, Java 5.0 prohibits run-time type-dependent operations, gene...
Java offers the real possibility that most programs can be written in a type-safe language. However, for Java to be broadly useful, it needs additional expressive power. This pape...
As multithreaded server applications and runtime systems prevail, garbage collection is becoming an essential feature to support high performance systems. The fundamental issue of...
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) eases the development of profilers, debuggers, and reverse engineering tools. Such tools frequently rely on calling context information. However,...