ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
There has been substantial recent interest in captured design expertise expressed as design patterns. Prevalent descriptions of these design patterns suffer from two demerits. Firs...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
Binary component adaptation (BCA) allows components to be adapted and evolved in binary form and on-the-fly (during program loading). BCA rewrites component binaries before (or whi...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
Abstract. An object-oriented language that permits changing the behavior of a class or of a single object is said to support computational reflection. Existing reflective facilitie...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
One of the price tags attached to the blessings that OO brings about is a drop in efficiency due to dynamic method dispatch. Much research effort is being spent on the problem of e...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
Predicate dispatching generalizes previous method dispatch mechanisms by permitting arbitrary predicates to control method applicability and by using logical implication between pr...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
Although many temporal extensions of the relational data model have been proposed, there is no comparable amount of work in the context of object-oriented data models. Moreover, ex...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
Parametric types and virtual types have recently been proposed as extensions to Java to support genericity. In this paper we investigate the strengths and weaknesses of each. We su...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
Wrappers are mechanisms for introducing new behavior that is executed before and/or after, and perhaps even in lieu of, an existing method. This paper examines several ways to impl...
ECOOP
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
Three nontrivial limitations of the existing JavaT M technology are considered from the viewpoint of object-oriented database technology. The limitations are: lack of support for o...