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Delegation proxies: the power of propagation

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Oscar Nierstrasz,

Camille Teruel,

Stéphane DucasseAuthors Info & Claims

MODULARITY '14: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Modularity

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2577080.2577081

Published: 22 April 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Scoping behavioral variations to dynamic extents is useful to support non-functional requirements that otherwise result in cross-cutting code. Unfortunately, such variations are difficult to achieve with traditional reflection or aspects. We show that with a modification of dynamic proxies, called delegation proxies, it becomes possible to reflectively implement variations that propagate to all objects accessed in the dynamic extent of a message send. We demonstrate our approach with examples of variations scoped to dynamic extents that help simplify code related to safety, reliability, and monitoring.

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Delegation proxies: the power of propagation
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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MODULARITY '14: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Modularity

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DOI:10.1145/2577080

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