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ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Why Don't People Use Refactoring Tools?
Tools that perform refactoring are currently under-utilized by programmers. As more advanced refactoring tools are designed, a great chasm widens between how the tools must be use...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Andrew P. Black
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Model-driven Software Refactoring
In this chapter, we explore the emerging research domain of modeldriven software refactoring. Program refactoring is a proven technique that aims at improving the quality of sourc...
Tom Mens, Gabriele Taentzer
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Tracking Linear and Affine Resources with Java(X)
Java(X) is a framework for type refinement. It extends Java's type language with annotations drawn from an algebra X and structural subtyping in terms of the annotations. Each...
Markus Degen, Peter Thiemann, Stefan Wehr
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
AS-GC: An Efficient Generational Garbage Collector for Java Application Servers
Abstract. A generational collection strategy utilizing a single nursery cannot efficiently manage objects in application servers due to variance in their lifespans. In this paper, ...
Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, ChengHuan Jia, Hong J...
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Validity Invariants and Effects
Object invariants describe the consistency of object states, and are crucial for reasoning about the correctness of object-oriented programs. However, reasoning about object invari...
Yi Lu 0003, John Potter, Jingling Xue
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Efficiently Generating Structurally Complex Inputs with Thousands of Objects
Abstract. We present Shekoosh, a novel framework for constraint-based generation of structurally complex inputs of large sizes. Given a Java predicate that represents the desired s...
Bassem Elkarablieh, Yehia Zayour, Sarfraz Khurshid
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Non-null References by Default in Java: Alleviating the Nullity Annotation Burden
With the advent of Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in the availability of tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. For such tools to be truly eff...
Patrice Chalin, Perry R. James
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Gradual Typing for Objects
Static and dynamic type systems have well-known strengths and weaknesses. In previous work we developed a gradual type system for a functional calculus named λ? →. Gradual typin...
Jeremy G. Siek, Walid Taha
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Towards Runtime Adaptation in a SOA Environment
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promotes the utilization of available services to develop completely new applications in a context which has not been foreseen as these services...
Florian Irmert, Marcus Meyerhöfer, Markus Wei...
ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Metaprogramming with Traits
Abstract. In many domains, classes have highly regular internal structure. For example, so-called business objects often contain boilerplate code for mapping database fields to cl...
John H. Reppy, Aaron Turon