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Flexible Language Interoperability

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Flexible Language Interoperability
machines raise the abstraction level of the execution environment at the cost of restricting the set of supported languages. Moreover, the ability of a language implementation to integrate with other languages hosted on the same virtual machine typically constrains the features of the language. In this paper, we present a highly flexible yet efficient approach to hosting multiple programming languages on an objectoriented virtual machine. Our approach is based on extending the interface of each class with language-specific wrapper methods, offering each language a tailored view of a given class. This approach can be deployed both on a statically typed virtual machine, such as the JVM, and on a dynamic virtual machine, such as a Smalltalk virtual machine. We have implemented our approach to language interoperability on top of a prototype virtual machine for embedded systems based on the Smalltalk object model, which provides interoperability for embedded versions of the Smalltalk, Ja...
Torbjörn Ekman, Peter Mechlenborg, Ulrik Pagh
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where JOT
Authors Torbjörn Ekman, Peter Mechlenborg, Ulrik Pagh Schultz
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