Title :
Adding contracts to Java
Author_Institution :
Distributed Inf. Lab., Univ. of Canberra, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Design by contract is a technique for specifying the requirements and deliverables between clients and suppliers in an OO system. Contracts have been implemented in Eiffel. The paper examines the possible ways that contracts can be added to Java, and explores in detail one particular mechanism based on reflection. The advantages and disadvantages of this mechanism are discussed
Keywords :
formal specification; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; Eiffel; Java contracts; OO system; clients; deliverables; reflection; requirements; suppliers; Contracts; Design engineering; Documentation; Information science; Java; Laboratories; Programming profession; Reflection; Runtime; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 27. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-9096-8
DOI :
10.1109/TOOLS.1998.713581
