Abstract
Object composition is often advocated as a more flexible alternative to standard class inheritance since it takes place at run-time, thus permitting the behavior of objects to be specialized dynamically. In this paper we present I-Java, an extension of the Java language with a form of incomplete objects, i.e., objects with some missing methods which can be provided at run-time by composition with another (complete) object. Therefore, we can exploit object composition as a linguistic construct, instead of resorting to a manual implementation. This work builds on our theoretical model of incomplete objects, which was proved type-safe. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Bettini, L., Bono, V., & Turin, E. (2009). I-Java: An extension of java with incomplete objects and object composition. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5634 LNCS, pp. 27–44). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02655-3_4
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