ECOOP '98 - Object-Oriented Programming 12th European Conference, Brussels, Belgium, July 20-24, 1998, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP'98, held in Brussels, Belgium, in July 1998.
The book presents 24 revised full technical papers selected for inclusion from a total of 124 submissions; also presented are two invited papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling ideas and experiences; design patterns and frameworks; language problems and solutions; distributed memory systems; reuse, adaption and hardware support; reflection; extensible objects and types; and mixins, inheritance and type analysis complexity.

Mobile objects and mobile agents: The future of distributed computing?.- The M.A.D. experience: Multiperspective application development in evolutionary prototyping.- Extending the ODMG object model with time.- Modelica — A unified object-oriented language for system modeling and simulation.- Synthesizing object-oriented and functional design to promote re-use.- Precise visual specification of design patterns.- Framework design for end-to-end optimization.- Flexible alias protection.- Predicate dispatching: A unified theory of dispatch.- Orthogonal to the Java imperative.- Modelling a distributed cached store for garbage collection: The algorithm and its correctness proof.- Cyclic distributed garbage collection with group merger.- Experiences developing a virtual shared memory system using high-level object paradigms.- Binary component adaptation.- Object-oriented architectural support for a Java processor.- A study of the fragile base class problem.- Providing orthogonal persistence for Java.- Wrappers to the rescue.- Design and partial evaluation of meta-objects for a concurrent reflective language.- Reflection for statically typed languages.- An imperative, first-order calculus with object extension.- On object extension.- A statically safe alternative to virtual types.- Implementing layered designs with mixin layers.- Classifying inheritance mechanisms in concurrent object-oriented programming.- The complexity of type analysis of object oriented programs.