Modeling and Programming with Roles: Introducing JavaStage

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Barbosa, FS (Author) Other; Ademar Aguiar (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: NEW TRENDS IN SOFTWARE METHODOLOGIES, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

Pages: 124-145

11th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques (SoMeT)

Genoa, ITALY, SEP 26-28, 2012

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Authenticus ID: P-005-KBJ

DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-125-0-124

Abstract (EN): Roles are not a new concept, but they have been used in two different ways: as modeling concepts in a static view and as instance extensions in a dynamic view. For these views only the dynamic offers supporting languages. The static view, although proving the utility of roles in modeling, does not offer a programming language that allows developers to use roles all the way from modeling to programming. We try to overcome this by presenting our role language JavaStage, based on the Java language. We do this by designing and implementing a simple framework and then compare the results with its OO equivalent. Our results show that static roles are in fact useful when used in code and that JavaStage features expand role reuse.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 22