Year: 2000
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In an increasingly popular model of software distribution, software is developed in one computing environment and deployed in other environments by transfer over the internet. Extraction tools perform a static whole-program analysis to determine unused functionality in applications in order to reduce the time required to download applications. We have identified a number of scenarios where extraction tools require information beyond what can be inferred through static analysis: software distributions other than complete applications, the use of reflection, and situations where an application uses separately developed class libraries. This paper explores these issues, and introduces a modular specification language for expressing the information required for extraction. We implemented this language in the context of Jax, an industrial-strength application extractor for Java, and present a small case study in which different extraction scenarios are applied to a commercially available library-based application.
Authors: Peter F. Sweeney, Frank Tip
Institution: IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2125710959