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Declarative Events for Object-Oriented Programming

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: In object-oriented designs inversion of control is achieved by an event-driven programming style based on impera-tively triggered events. An alternative approach can be found in aspect-oriented programming, which defines events as declarative queries over implicitly available events. This helps to localize definition of events and avoid preplanning, but lacks a clean integration with object-oriented features and principles. The contribution of this paper is a concept of object-oriented events that combines imperative, declarative and implicit events and provides their seamless integration with object-oriented features, preserving encapsulation and modular reasoning. We present an efficient and type-safe implementation of the concept as an extension to the SCALA language. 1.

Authors: Gasiūnas, Vaidas, Satabin, Lucas, Mezini, Mira, Núñez, Angel, Noyé, Jacques

Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W562223615

FWCI: 1.959

Cites: 35

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10