Detail of an event flow diagram showing the libraries a Web
request passes through as it is processed by a multitier Web
application system. (From my talk at the Dagstuhl Workshop on
Software Libraries)
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Generic Programming and Software Libraries
Dagstuhl Workshop on Software Libraries
In March 2005, I attended a
Dagstuhl workshop on
software libraries. The participants were a unique cross section
of software library and programming language researchers that
included David Musser, Bjarne Stroustrup, Todd Veldhuizen, and
Jeremy Siek (just to drop a few names :) ). The goal of the
workshop was to devise a research agenda for studying software
libraries. The immediate result is the Library-Centric Software Design
workshop. At the original workshop, I was the sole
representative with extensive industry experience and presented
an overview of software libraries from this perspective.
Java Generic Programming
- Presentation on The Ecology and Biodiversity of Libraries
- Supplemental poster (11x14)A Library Ecosystem:
Multitier Webmail Application
This project demonstrates retroactive modeling in Java. Given an
interface (representing a generic concept) and a class, a
runtime type-check ensures the class conforms to the interface
(i.e., "models the concept" in generic parlance) and generates a
proxy class that can be used with generic functions that take
objects that implement the interface. The object only needs to
nominally conform to the interface (i.e., have the same methods)
and does not need to explicitly implement it (i.e. object
implements interface).
Note that this is not related to Java Generics, but rather
shows how to implement STL-like generic programming in Java.
- Generic Java Paper
- Generic Java Presentation
- Generic Java Source Code (tar)