KAPSEL-programming within boundaries

Author

Ege, Raimund K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

11-15 Aug 1997

Firstpage

548

Lastpage

551

Abstract

KAPSEL is a new object-oriented programming language to encourage the building of reusable software components. The components, i.e. classes, establish clear boundaries between their implementation detail and their outside-visible specification. The underlying software concept employed is that of encapsulation: the close integration and protection of information and its functionality. The paper explores the basic idea of encapsulation in object-oriented methodology: as it applies to objects, classes and class hierarchies, and introduces the programming language-KAPSEL-which facilitates the specification of reusable object-oriented software components

Keywords

data structures; formal specification; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; software reusability; KAPSEL; boundaries; class hierarchies; classes; data encapsulation; object; object-oriented methodology; object-oriented programming language; outside-visible specification; programming; reusable object-oriented software component specification; reusable software components; Access control; Computer languages; Computer science; Encapsulation; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Packaging; Protection; Remuneration; Software packages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8105-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625066

Filename

625066