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Datatype Generic Programming In Java
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Date: 2010-06-10 Time: 11:00 Room: BBL. [[http://www.cs.uu.nl/docs/reach/bbl.php][BBL]] [[http://www.cs.uu.nl/info/plan/bbl.php][023]] ----+++++ Speaker: Ingmar van der Steen ----+++++ Title: Datatype Generic Programming in Java ----+++++ Abstract The purpose of the study was to investigate if we could implement a datatype-generic-programming (DGP) library in the OO language Java. DGP is a form of programming in which functionality is written only once and this functionality is reused for arbitrary classes. A DG method captures the pattern that exists in ad-hoc implementations of the same functionality for these classes. Being able to write a DG method releases the burden of writing ad-hoc code for each individual class for which we want to have this functionality. Another aim was to find out if we could make this library modular and extensible. Users of this library could then implement new DG methods and extend these methods in a modular fashion. In order to implement this library we tried to reuse the concepts of 'view' and 'runtime-type-representation' (RTR) from DGP libraries written in the functional programming language Haskell. Our library intensively used the Java generics mechanism to be able to adopt these concepts and be able to implement it in a modular and extensible way. It was found that the concepts of 'view' and RTR also applied to an OO context. We were able to implement a modular and extensible DGP library in the programming language Java using the generics mechanism.
