Implementing reusable object-oriented components

Author

Smaragdakis, Yannis ; Batory, Don

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

2-5 Jun 1998

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Object oriented (OO) classes are generally not reusable because they are not meaningful in isolation; most classes only have meaning as members of cooperating suites of classes (e.g., design patterns). These suites usually arise in designs, but rarely exist as encapsulated entities in OO implementations. We present a method for directly mapping cooperating suites of classes into encapsulated C++ implementations. Our method is an improvement over the VanHilst and Notkin approach (M. VanHilst and D. Notkin, 1996) for implementing collaboration based designs and constitutes a step towards more reusable (object oriented) components

Keywords

C language; data encapsulation; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; software reusability; OO implementations; collaboration based designs; cooperating suites; design patterns; encapsulated C++ implementations; encapsulated entities; object oriented classes; reusable object oriented components; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer languages; Design methodology; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reuse, 1998. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

ISSN

1085-9098

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8377-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSR.1998.685728

Filename

685728