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Implementing layered designs with mixin layers

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ECOOP’98 — Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1998)

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Mixin layers are a technique for implementing layered object-oriented designs (e.g., collaboration-based designs). Mixin layers are similar to abstract subclasses (mixin classes) but scaled to a multiple-class granularity. We describe mixin layers from a programming language viewpoint, discuss checking the consistency of a mixin layer composition, and analyze the language support issues involved.

We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of Microsoft Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Cooperative Agreement F30602-96-2-0226), and the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories.

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Smaragdakis, Y., Batory, D. (1998). Implementing layered designs with mixin layers. In: Jul, E. (eds) ECOOP’98 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054107

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