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A metaobject protocol for CLforJava

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Jay Cotton,

Jerry BoetjeAuthors Info & Claims

ILC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 International Lisp Conference

Article No.: 9, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1622123.1622134

Published: 01 April 2007 Publication History

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CLforJava is a new implementation of Common Lisp that intertwines its architecture and operation with Java. The authors describe a new architecture for a CLOS MOP that supports transparent, bi-directional access between Lisp and Java. The access requires no special techniques nor syntactic mechanisms on the part of the programmer - being either Java or Lisp. The core of the new MOP is a data structure that melds the fundamental structures of Java instances (N-tuples) and CLOS instances (2-tuples) in such a way that the respective object systems can interact without cumbersome translations. Methods from their respective object systems can interact freely. We discuss certain aspects of the respective MOPs that prevent a complete integration and replacement of one system by the other.

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J. Boetje, "Common Lisp for Java: A New Implementation Intertwined with Java", Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference, 2005

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Kiczales, Gregor, Jim des Rivieres, and Daniel G. Bobrow.", The Art of the Metaobject Protocol." MIT Press, 1991.

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J. Boetje, "Foundational Actions: Teaching Software Engineering When Time Is Tight", Proceedings of the Conference on Innovation Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2006

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A metaobject protocol for CLforJava
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Abstract data types
        Control structures
        Polymorphism

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ILC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 International Lisp Conference

April 2007

187 pages

ISBN:9781595936189

DOI:10.1145/1622123

Conference Chairs:
Carl Shapiro
SRI International
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Pascal Costanza
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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JonL White
The Ginger Ice Cream Factory

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