research-article

Groovy package templates: supporting reuse and runtime adaption of class hierarchies

Authors:

Eyvind W. Axelsen,

Stein KrogdahlAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 44, Issue 12

Pages 15 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/1837513.1640139

Published: 26 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

We show how package templates, a modularization mechanism originally developed for statically typed languages like Java and C#, can be applied to and implemented in a dynamic language like Groovy, by using the language's capabilities for meta-programming. We then consider a set of examples and discuss dynamic PT from the viewpoints of code modularization and reuse, and dynamic adaption of classes at runtime.

References

[1]

I. Aracic, V. Gasiunas, M. Mezini, and K. Ostermann. An overview of CaesarJ. In Trans. AOSD I, volume 3880 of LNCS, pages 135--173. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006.

Digital Library

[2]

E. W. Axelsen, F. Sørensen, and S. Krogdahl. A reusable observer pattern implementation using package templates. In ACP4IS '09: Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Aspects, components, and patterns for infrastructure software, pages 37--42, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM.

Digital Library

[3]

A. Bergel, S. Ducasse, O. Nierstrasz, and R. Wuyts. Stateful traits and their formalization. Computer Languages, Systems&Structures, 34(2-3):83--108, 2008.

Digital Library

[4]

G. Bracha and W. Cook. Mixin-based inheritance. In N. Meyrowitz, editor, Proc. Conf. O-O. Prog.: Syst., Lang., and Appl. / Proc. ECOOP, pages 303--311, Ottawa, Canada, 1990. ACM Press.

Digital Library

[5]

C. Clifton, G. T. Leavens, C. Chambers, and T. Millstein. Multijava: Modular open classes and symmetric multiple dispatch for Java. In OOPSLA 2000 Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, volume 35(10), pages 130--145, 2000.

Digital Library

[6]

A. Colyer. AspectJ. In Aspect-Oriented Software Development, pages 123--143. Addison-Wesley, 2005.

[7]

P. Costanza and R. Hirschfeld. Language constructs for context-oriented programming: an overview of contextl. In DLS '05: Proceedings of the 2005 symposium on Dynamic languages, pages 1--10, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM.

Digital Library

[8]

Ecma International. Standard ECMA-334 C# Language Specification, 4th edition, 2006.

[9]

Éric Tanter. Expressive scoping of dynamically-deployed aspects. In AOSD '08: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development, pages 168--179, New York, 2008. ACM.

Digital Library

[10]

E. Ernst. gbeta - a language with virtual attributes, block structure, and propagating, dynamic inheritance, 1999.

[11]

Extension methods (C# Programming Guide). URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx.

[12]

E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides. Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Digital Library

[13]

A. Goldberg and D. Robson. Smalltalk 80 : The Language. Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science. Addison-Wesley Professional, January 1989.

Digital Library

[14]

J. Gosling, B. Joy, G. Steele, and G. Bracha. Java Language Specification, Second Edition: The Java Series. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, USA, 2000.

Digital Library

[15]

The Grails homepage. URL: http://grails.org.

[16]

The Groovy homepage. URL: http://groovy.codehaus.org.

[17]

Groovy: Runtime vs compile time, static vs dynamic. URL: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Runtime+vs+Compile+time,+Static+vs+Dynamic.

[18]

J. Hannemann and G. Kiczales. Design pattern implementation in Java and AspectJ. SIGPLAN Not., 37(11):161--173, 2002.

Digital Library

[19]

W. Harrison and H. Ossher. Subject-oriented programming: a critique of pure objects. In OOPSLA '93: Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, pages 411--428, New York, NY, USA, 1993. ACM.

Digital Library

[20]

G. Kiczales, J. des Rivières, and D. G. Bobrow. The art of the metaobject protocol. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1991.

Digital Library

[21]

G. Kiczales, J. Lamping, A. Menhdhekar, C. Maeda, C. Lopes, J.-M. Loingtier, and J. Irwin. Aspect-oriented programming. In M. Akşit and S. Matsuoka, editors, Proceedings European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, volume 1241, pages 220--242. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York, 1997.

[22]

S. Krogdahl, B. Møller-Pedersen, and F. Sørensen. Exploring the use of package templates for flexible re-use of collections of related classes. To appear in the Journal of Object Technology (available now from http://home.ifi.uio.no/steinkr/papers/), 2009.

[23]

T. Lindholm and F. Yellin. The Java™ Virtual Machine Specification (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall PTR, April 1999.

Digital Library

[24]

O. L. Madsen and B. Møller-Pedersen. Virtual classes: a powerful mechanism in object-oriented programming. In OOPSLA '89: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications, pages 397--406, New York, NY, USA, 1989. ACM.

Digital Library

[25]

O. L. Madsen, B. Møller-Pedersen, and K. Nygaard. Object-Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language. Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Digital Library

[26]

M. Mezini and K. Ostermann. Conquering aspects with Caesar. In AOSD '03, pages 90--99, New York, 2003. ACM.

Digital Library

[27]

O. Nierstrasz, S. Ducasse, S. Reichhart, and N. Schärli. Adding Traits to (Statically Typed) Languages. Technical Report IAM-05-006, Institut für Informatik, Universität Bern, Switzerland, December 2005.

[28]

N. Nystrom, X. Qi, and A. C. Myers. J.: nested intersection for scalable software composition. In OOPSLA '06, pages 21--36, New York, 2006. ACM.

Digital Library

[29]

The Python homepage. URL: http://python.org.

[30]

The Ruby homepage. URL: http://ruby-lang.org.

[31]

The Ruby on Rails homepage. URL: http://rubyonrails.org.

[32]

N. Schärli, S. Ducasse, O. Nierstrasz, and A. Black. Traits: Composable units of behavior. In ECOOP 2003, volume 2743 of LNCS, pages 327--339. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2003.

[33]

F. Sørensen and S. Krogdahl. Generic packages with expandable classes compared with similar approaches. In NIK 2007. Tapir akademisk forlag, 2007.

Cited By

Cortinhas CBarros F(2014)Extending Groovy’s Reification and ClosuresNew Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 210.1007/978-3-319-05948-8_1(1-7)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05948-8_1
Whitsitt SSprinkle J(2013)Model Based Development with the Skeleton Design MethodProceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems10.1109/ECBS.2013.16(12-19)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ECBS.2013.16
Farinha Jda Silva A(2022)UML Templates DistilledIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2022.314389810(8709-8727)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3143898
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Groovy package templates: supporting reuse and runtime adaption of class hierarchies
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Classes and objects
        Modules / packages

Recommendations

Groovy package templates: supporting reuse and runtime adaption of class hierarchies
DLS '09: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Dynamic languages

We show how package templates, a modularization mechanism originally developed for statically typed languages like Java and C#, can be applied to and implemented in a dynamic language like Groovy, by using the language's capabilities for meta-...
Controlling dynamic module composition through an extensible meta-level API
DLS '10: Proceedings of the 6th symposium on Dynamic languages

In addition to traditional object-oriented (OO) concepts such as inheritance and polymorphism, several modularization and composition mechanisms like e.g. traits, mixins and virtual classes have emerged. The Package Template mechanism is another attempt ...
Controlling dynamic module composition through an extensible meta-level API
DLS '10

In addition to traditional object-oriented (OO) concepts such as inheritance and polymorphism, several modularization and composition mechanisms like e.g. traits, mixins and virtual classes have emerged. The Package Template mechanism is another attempt ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 44, Issue 12

DLS '09

December 2009

107 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/1837513

Issue’s Table of Contents

DLS '09: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Dynamic languages
October 2009
118 pages
ISBN:9781605587691
DOI:10.1145/1640134
Program Chair:
James Noble
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Copyright © 2009 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 26 October 2009

Published in SIGPLAN Volume 44, Issue 12

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

12
Total Citations
View Citations
251
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)2
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 01 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Cortinhas CBarros F(2014)Extending Groovy’s Reification and ClosuresNew Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 210.1007/978-3-319-05948-8_1(1-7)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05948-8_1
Whitsitt SSprinkle J(2013)Model Based Development with the Skeleton Design MethodProceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems10.1109/ECBS.2013.16(12-19)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ECBS.2013.16
Farinha Jda Silva A(2022)UML Templates DistilledIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2022.314389810(8709-8727)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3143898
Axelsen ESørensen FKrogdahl SMøller-Pedersen B(2012)Challenges in the design of the package template mechanismTransactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development IX10.5555/2434958.2434968(268-305)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2434958.2434968
Lee THou J(2012)Model Expansion in Model-Driven ArchitecturesSoftware Reuse in the Emerging Cloud Computing Era10.4018/978-1-4666-0897-9.ch002(28-50)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0897-9.ch002
Axelsen EKrogdahl S(2012)Package templatesACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/2480361.237140948:3(50-59)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2480361.2371409
Axelsen EKrogdahl SOstermann KBinder W(2012)Package templatesProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering10.1145/2371401.2371409(50-59)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2371401.2371409
Axelsen ESørensen FKrogdahl SMøller-Pedersen B(2012)Challenges in the Design of the Package Template MechanismTransactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development IX10.1007/978-3-642-35551-6_7(268-305)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35551-6_7
Ferreira RCarro L(2012)Adaptive SoftwareAdaptable Embedded Systems10.1007/978-1-4614-1746-0_9(279-304)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1746-0_9
Axelsen EKrogdahl SMøller-Pedersen B(2010)Controlling dynamic module composition through an extensible meta-level APIACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/1899661.186964145:12(81-96)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1899661.1869641
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Issue’s Table of Contents