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Implicit First Class Genericity

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Software Composition (SC 2009)

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While software systems are growing bigger, and the market demands shorter software production cycles, IT companies need more and more extensive reuse of existing components. Additionally, sophisticated reuse scenarios demand flexible components which are able to adapt to different needs. As a result, it is required that all the components are as customizable as possible. In object-oriented (OO) programming languages, the base tool of reuse and customization is inheritance, which is widely known and exploited, however shows its limits when it comes to reuse nested components, which implement their behaviour using other classes instantiated internally. In this paper we present a new proposal that offers a feature for replacing a class with a compatible subclass within a library without the need of modifying its sources. As a result, it increases the possible reuse and the customization scenarios of existing components, with little additional coding required. Our idea is presented as an extension of an arbitrary OO language, however it is studied in more details as an extension of Java called ImpliJava.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland

    Jaroslaw D. M. Kuśmierek

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  1. Computer Science Department (DCC), Universidad De Chile, Blanco Encalada 2120, Santiago, Chile

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Kuśmierek, J.D.M. (2009). Implicit First Class Genericity. In: Bergel, A., Fabry, J. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02655-3_9

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