Software developers often duplicate source code to replicate functionality. This practice can hinder the maintenance of a software project: bugs may arise when two identical code ...
Abstract. Variant parametric types (VPT) represent the successful result of combining subtype polymorphism with parametric polymorphism to support a more flexible subtyping for Ja...
Current software development often relies on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services, eventually running on different platforms. As a rule, however, such ...
Traits are basically mixins or interfaces but with method bodies. In languages that support traits, classes are composed out of traits. There are two main advantages with traits. ...
Software product lines - families of similar but not identical software products - need to address the issue of feature variability. That is, a single feature might require various...