Dynamic aspect-oriented programming (AOP) enables runtime adaptation of aspects, which is important for building sophisticated, aspect-based software engineering tools, such as ad...
— In Java, method implementations are chosen at runtime by late-binding with respect to the runtime class of just the receiver argument. However, in order to simplify many progra...
The JavaTM programming language does not allow the programmer to influence memory management. An object is usually allocated on the heap and deallocated by the garbage collector ...
While the dynamic linking mechanism of modern programming languages, such as Java, allows loading of classes dynamically, it does not allow class reloading. Hence, dynamic linking...
One of the most distinctive features of the JavaT M programming language is the ability to specify class loading policies. Despite the popularity of class loaders, little has been ...