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Using Java's generics mechanism to improve type safety in the command pattern

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Karl Ridgeway,

David Bernstein,

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ACMSE '08: Proceedings of the 46th annual ACM Southeast Conference

Pages 231 - 236

https://doi.org/10.1145/1593105.1593165

Published: 28 March 2008 Publication History

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This paper discusses ways in which Java's generics mechanism can be used to improve a Remote Procedure Call implementation using the Command and Proxy patterns. Specifically, it shows how generics can be used to specify return types and receiver types.

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ACMSE '08: Proceedings of the 46th annual ACM Southeast Conference

March 2008

548 pages

ISBN:9781605581057

DOI:10.1145/1593105

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ACM SE08: ACM Southeast Regional Conference

March 28 - 29, 2008

Alabama, Auburn

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