Delegation by object composition

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 992-1014

  Bettini, Lorenzo ^a   Bono, Viviana ^a   Venneri, Betti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consultation; Delegation; Featherweight Java; Language extensions; Object composition

Indexed keywords

CONSULTATION; DELEGATION; FEATHERWEIGHT JAVA; LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS; OBJECT COMPOSITION;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958789738     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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