Today's Paper: Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse

Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse

Authors:
Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz, Nathanael Schärli, Roel Wuyts, Andrew P. Black

Abstract:
Inheritance is well-known and accepted as a mechanism for reuse in object-oriented languages. Unfortunately, due to the coarse granularity of inheritance, it may be difficult to decompose an application into an optimal class hierarchy that maximizes software reuse. Existing schemes based on single inheritance, multiple inheritance, or mixins, all pose numerous problems for reuse. To overcome these problems we propose traits, pure units of reuse consisting only of methods. We develop a formal model of traits that establishes how traits can be composed, either to form other traits, or to form classes. We also outline an experimental validation in which we apply traits to refactor a nontrivial application into composable units.

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Volume 28 , Issue 2 (March 2006)
Pages: 331 - 388
Year of Publication: 2006

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1119479.1119483

J2EE-PHP Interop

In an FTPOnline article, Andi Gutmans, et al. discuss two technologies for interoperating between WebSphere and PHP.

Achieve J2EE-PHP Interoperability by Andi Gutmans, Stew Nickolas, and Zeev Suraski, FTPOnline, Nov 1, 2006

Two most popular technologies, SOAP and PHP/Java Bridge, are coverd.

Today's Paper: Finding Probably Better System Configurations Quickly (SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006)

Finding Probably Better System Configurations Quickly

Authors:
Takayuki Osogami, Toshinari Itoko:

SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006
pp.264-275

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1140277.1140308

Today's Paper: A Reference Architecture for Overlay Networks (P2P2005)

The Essence of P2P: A Reference Architecture for Overlay Networks

Authors:
Karl Aberer, Luc Onana Alima, Ali Ghodsi, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Seif Haridi, Manfred Hauswirth

Peer-to-Peer Computing 2005
pp.11-20

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/P2P.2005.38

Today's Paper: Optimizing Memory Transactions (PLDI 2006)

Optimizing memory transactions

Authors:
Tim Harris, Mark Plesko, Avraham Shinnar, David Tarditi

PLDI 2006
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 11-14, 2006.
pp.14-25
ACM 2006, ISBN 1-59593-320-4

Today's Paper: Architectural thinking and modeling with the Architects' Workbench (IBM SJ)

Architectural thinking and modeling with the Architect's Workbench

Authors:
S. Abrams, B. Bloom, P. Keyser, D. Kimelman, E. Nelson, W. Neuberger, T. Roth, I. Simmonds, S. Tang, J. Vlissides

IBM Systems Journal, Volume 45, Number 3, 2006

How the Spring AOP Works for Enterprise Application Development

An article by Adrian Colyer at InfoQ explains how the Spring AOP of Spring 2.0 (and AspectJ) works:

• Simplifying Enterprise Applications with Spring 2.0 and AspectJ, Adrian Colyer, InfoQ, Aug 10,. 2006.

Starting from a simple introduction of AspectJ 5 and Spring 2.0, he describes how to adopt AOP in enterprise applications step by step. It includes many sample code.