ECOOP '96 - Object-Oriented Programming

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP '96, held in Linz, Austria, in July 1996.
The 21 full papers included in revised version were selected from a total of 173 submissions, based on technical quality and originality criteria. The papers reflect the most advanced issues in the field of object-oriented programming and cover a wide range of current topics, including applications, programming languages, implementation, specification, distribution, databases, and design.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Measurement strategies.- Will Europe ever produce and sell objects?.- Type-safe compilation of covariant specialization: A practical case.- Integrating subtyping, matching and type quantification: A practical perspective.- Typed object-oriented functional programming with late binding.- Large scale object-oriented software-development in a banking environment.- An application framework for module composition tools.- Automatic generation of user interfaces from data structure specifications and object-oriented application models.- Eliminating virtual function calls in C++ programs.- Supporting explicit disambiguation of multi-methods.- Towards alias-free pointers.- Inheritance and cofree constructions.- (Objects + concurrency) & reusability A proposal to circumvent the inheritance anomaly.- Modeling subobject-based inheritance.- Parallel operators.- An implementation method of migratable distributed objects using an RPC technique integrated with virtual memory management.- Protocol classes for designing reliable distributed environments.- Dynamic clustering in object databases exploiting effective use of relationships between objects.- Conceptual design of active object-oriented database applications using multi-level diagrams.- Bridging the gap between C++ and relational databases.- Generalising the BETA type system.- Metaphoric polymorphism: Taking code reuse one step further.- Activities: Abstractions for collective behavior.