Component-Oriented Programming in Object-Oriented Languages (1999)
| Venue: | Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California |
| Citations: | 2 - 2 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Fröhlich99component-orientedprogramming,
author = {Peter H. Fröhlich and Michael Franz},
title = {Component-Oriented Programming in Object-Oriented Languages},
institution = {Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
Current approaches to component-oriented programming are based on traditional object-oriented languages and concepts. However, most existing object-oriented languages fail to address subtle interface compatibility issues that become paramount in a component-based setting. We explore both syntactic and semantic interface incompatibilities and discuss why they are difficult to handle. We argue that resolving these incompatibilities requires breaking with a fundamental idiom of object-oriented languages: the subordination of messages to interfaces and classes. We propose a solution based on the concept of stand-alone messages as found in the experimental programming language Lagoona and discuss its ramifications.
