CORBA is a commercial standard for distributed object computing which shows great
promise in the development of distributed programs. Its interface description language (IDL) …

This book introduces a software development method, called the Demeter1 Method, for
develo** adaptive object-oriented software. The reader will learn the Demeter Method for …

For object-oriented programming, the Visitor pattern enables the definition of a new
operation on an object structure without changing the classes of the objects. The price has …

Two of the most important issues in distributed systems are the synchronization of
concurrent threads and the application-level data transfers between execution spaces. At …

Many functions have to be written over and over again for different datatypes, either because
datatypes change during the development of programs, or because functions with similar …

In several works on design methodologies, design patterns, and programming language
design, the need for program entities that capture the patterns of collaboration between …

Many problems require recursively specified types of data and a collection of tools that
operate on those data. Over time, these problems evolve so that the programmer must …

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) controls tangling of concerns by isolating aspects that
cross-cut each other into building blocks. Component-based programming (CBP) supports …

Many functions have to be written over and over again for different datatypes, either because
datatypes change during the development of programs, or because functions with similar …