Purpose of the Book This book presents an approach to improve the
standard object-oriented pro gramming model. The proposal is aimed
at supporting a larger range of incre mental behavior variations
and thus promises to be more effective in mastering the complexity
of today's software. The ability of dealing with the evolutionary
nature of software is one of main merits of object-oriented data
abstraction and inheritance. Object-orientation allows to organize
software in a structured way by separating the description of
different kinds of an abstract data type into different classes and
loosely connecting them by the inheritance hierarchy. Due to this
separation, the soft ware becomes free of conditional logics
previously needed for distinguishing between different kinds of
abstractions and can thus more easily be incremen tally extended to
support new kinds of abstractions. In other words, classes and
inheritance are means to properly model variations of behavior
related to the existence of different kinds of an abstract data
type. The support for extensi bility and reuse with respect to such
kind-specific behavior variations is among the main reasons for the
increasing popularity of object-oriented programming in the last
two decades. However, this popularity does not prevent us from
questioning the real effec tiveness of current object-oriented
techniques in supporting incremental vari ations. In fact, this
popularity makes a critical investigation of the variations that
can actually be performed incrementally even more important."
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