ECOOP '98 - Object-Oriented Programming [electronic resource] : 12th European Conference, Brussels, Belgium, July 20-24, 1998, Proceedings /

Mobile objects and mobile agents: The future of distributed computing? -- The M.A.D. experience: Multiperspective application development in evolutionary prototyping -- Extending the ODMG object model with time -- Modelica — A unified object-oriented language for system modeling and simulation -- Synthesizing object-oriented and functional design to promote re-use -- Precise visual specification of design patterns -- Framework design for end-to-end optimization -- Flexible alias protection -- Predicate dispatching: A unified theory of dispatch -- Orthogonal to the Java imperative -- Modelling a distributed cached store for garbage collection: The algorithm and its correctness proof -- Cyclic distributed garbage collection with group merger -- Experiences developing a virtual shared memory system using high-level object paradigms -- Binary component adaptation -- Object-oriented architectural support for a Java processor -- A study of the fragile base class problem -- Providing orthogonal persistence for Java -- Wrappers to the rescue -- Design and partial evaluation of meta-objects for a concurrent reflective language -- Reflection for statically typed languages -- An imperative, first-order calculus with object extension -- On object extension -- A statically safe alternative to virtual types -- Implementing layered designs with mixin layers -- Classifying inheritance mechanisms in concurrent object-oriented programming -- The complexity of type analysis of object oriented programs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP'98, held in Brussels, Belgium, in July 1998. The book presents 24 revised full technical papers selected for inclusion from a total of 124 submissions; also presented are two invited papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling ideas and experiences; design patterns and frameworks; language problems and solutions; distributed memory systems; reuse, adaption and hardware support; reflection; extensible objects and types; and mixins, inheritance and type analysis complexity.