Component Libraries and Language Features

  • Authors:
  • Ehud Lamm

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Ada Europe '01 Proceedings of the 6th Ade-Europe International Conference Leuven on Reliable Software Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

One major vehicle for reuse is the use of libraries of code. Reusability is the prime route to software reliability. In this work, we will use the term software component in its widest sense, including all kinds of self-contained libraries of code, including collection libraries, APIs (bindings), application frameworks etc. Abstraction boundaries are essential both for reuse and for reliability. We study language features that help overcome limitations imposed by abstraction boundaries (e.g., incomplete interfaces) without completely breaking abstraction. Language features discussed: type sytem features, object orientation, genericity and reflection. The work presented is work in progress, preliminary results and observations will be shown and discussed.