Class composition for specifying framework design

✍ Scribed by Demeyer, Serge; Rieger, Matthias; Meijler, Theo Dirk; Gelsema, Edzard

• Book ID: 102647629
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 598 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1074-3227
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9942(1999)5:2<73::aid-tapo1>3.0.co;2-w

✦ Synopsis

Object-oriented frameworks are a particularly appealing approach towards software reuse. An object-oriented framework represents a design for a family of applications, where variations in the application domain are tackled by filling in the so-called hot spots. However, experience has shown that the current object-oriented mechanisms (class inheritance and object composition) are not able to elegantly support the "fill in the hot spot" idea. This paper introduces class composition as a more productive approach towards hot spots, offering all of the advantages of both class inheritance and object composition but involving extra work for the framework designer.