ContextJ: Context-oriented Programming with Java

• Appeltauer Malte

  Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

• Hirschfeld Robert

  Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

• Haupt Michael

  Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam

• Masuhara Hidehiko

  Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

Abstract

The development of context-aware systems requires dynamic adaptation that challenges state-of-the-art programming language support. Context-oriented programming (COP) provides dedicated abstractions for first-class representation of context-dependent behavior. So far, COP has been implemented for dynamically-typed languages such as Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript relying on reflection mechanisms, and for the statically-typed programming language Java based on libraries and pre-processors. ContextJ is our compiler-based COP implementation for Java that properly integrates COP's layer concept into the Java type system. In this paper, we introduce ContextJ's language constructs, semantics, and implementation. We present a case-study of a ContextJ-based desktop application.

Journal

• Information and Media Technologies

  Information and Media Technologies 6 (2), 399-419, 2011

  Information and Media Technologies Editorial Board

Details

• CRID: 1390282680241857152
• NII Article ID: 130000770579
• DOI: 10.11185/imt.6.399
• ISSN: 18810896
• Text Lang: en
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  • CiNii Articles
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