As object-oriented class libraries evolve, classes are occasionally deprecated in favor of others with roughly the same functionality. In Java’s standard libraries, for example,...
As a value flows across the boundary between interoperating languages, it must be checked and converted to fit the types and representations of the target language. For simple f...
Kathryn E. Gray, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Fla...
Code duplication is a serious problem with no easy solution, even in industrial-strength code. Single inheritance cannot provide for effective code reuse in all situations, and s...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Philip J. Quitslund, Andre...
An approach to managing the architecture of large software systems is presented. Dependencies are extracted from the code by a conventional static analysis, and shown in a tabular...
Neeraj Sangal, Ev Jordan, Vineet Sinha, Daniel Jac...
An aspect observes the execution of a base program; when certain actions occur, the aspect runs some extra code of its own. In the AspectJ language, the observations that an aspec...
Chris Allan, Pavel Avgustinov, Aske Simon Christen...