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Enhancements – Enabling Flexible Feature and Implementation Selection

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Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools (ICSR 2004)

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To provide performance trade-offs to users, reusable component libraries typically include multiple implementation variants for each interface. This paper introduces a scalable notion of enhancements to extend interfaces with new features. Enhancements provide flexibility along two dimensions: They allow users to combine any set of features with the base interface and they allow any implementation variant of the base interface to be combined with any implementation variant of each feature. These two dimensions of flexibility are necessary for reusable libraries to remain scaleable. To address the feature flexibility problem, this paper introduces a general notion of enhancements that decouple feature implementations from the implementations of base interfaces. The paper explains an approach for realizing enhancements in standard Java and analyzes its benefits and limitations. It examines a simple mechanism to support enhancements directly in languages such as Java.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    John M. Hunt & Murali Sitaraman

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Hunt, J.M., Sitaraman, M. (2004). Enhancements – Enabling Flexible Feature and Implementation Selection. In: Bosch, J., Krueger, C. (eds) Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools. ICSR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27799-6_8

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