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OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
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Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue on subjectivity in object-oriented systems
Featherweight Java: a minimal core calculus for Java and GJ
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Object-oriented composition untangled
OOPSLA '01 Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
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Object-Oriented Multi-Methods in Cecil
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Type-Safe Delegation for Run-Time Component Adaptation
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ECOOP '02 Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Type-Safe Prototype-Based Component Evolution
ECOOP '02 Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
A Delegation-based Object Calculus with Subtying
FCT '95 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory
Automated Delegation is a Viable Alternative to Multiple Inheritance in Class Based Languages
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Method driven model: a unified model for an object composition language
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Acta Informatica
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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
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Expressive and safe static reflection with MorphJ
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
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I-Java: An Extension of Java with Incomplete Objects and Object Composition
SC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Composition
Delegation by object composition
Science of Computer Programming
Session types for object-oriented languages
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Modeling adaptation with a tuple-based coordination language
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Modeling adaptation with Klaim
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
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Inheritance, which is a basic mechanism in mainstream object-oriented languages, introduces a strong coupling which limits modularity and code reuse. Furthermore, static class hierarchies cannot easily deal with unpredictable dynamic adaptations of the object behavior. In order to overcome these limitations, we propose new linguistic constructs for composing objects in a Java-like language. Objects are intended as featherweight components which can be used in multiple compositions, and object types specify not only the implemented functionalities, but also the required methods, which will be provided by other components during composition. Thus the language supports flexible object reuse and adaptation of the object behavior at run time. The static type discipline guarantees that method calls on well-typed object compositions are safe.