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Interaction among objects via roles: sessions and affordances in Java

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Matteo Baldoni,

Leendert van der TorreAuthors Info & Claims

PPPJ '06: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java

Pages 188 - 193

https://doi.org/10.1145/1168054.1168081

Published: 30 August 2006 Publication History

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In this paper we present a new vision in object oriented programming languages where the objects' attributes and operations depend on who is interacting with them. This vision is based on a new definition of the notion of role, which is inspired to the concept of affordance as developed in cognitive science. The current vision of objects considers attributes and operations as being objective and independent from the interaction. In contrast, in our model interaction with an object always passes through a role played by another object manipulating it. The advantage is that roles allow to define operations whose behavior changes depending on the role and the requirements it imposes, and to define session aware interaction, where the role maintains the state of the interaction with an object. Finally, we discuss how roles as affordances can be introduced in Java, building on our language powerJava.

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Interaction among objects via roles: sessions and affordances in Java
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Classes and objects
        Concurrent programming structures
      2. Language types
2. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program constructs

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PPPJ '06: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java

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DOI:10.1145/1168054

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