CLOWN as a testbed for concurrent object-oriented concepts

  • Authors:
  • Eugenio Battiston;Alfredo Chizzoni;Fiorella De Cindio

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Concurrent object-oriented programming and petri nets
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Petri nets have been considered among the variety of formalisms and theories taken into account for giving a sound semantic basis to (concurrent) object-oriented systems and languages. Pursuing this research direction, we have defined a formalism called CLOWN (CLass Orientation With Nets) and discussed on it many object-oriented concepts, with special regards to a netbased notion of inheritance. This paper presents the insights about the principles and the open problems of object-orientation that we derived by modelling in CLOWN a number of small to medium case studies. The current results suggest, as promising future efforts, the tighter integration with object-oriented analysis and design methodologies, especially aimed at the Smalltalk language.