Kevin Bierhoff
ABSTRACT
Reusable APIs often define usage protocols. The author previously developed a sound and modular type system that checks compliance to typestate-based protocols while affording a great deal of aliasing flexibility. This paper focuses on making these ideas available in tools for mainstream object-oriented languages and evaluating their practical effectiveness.
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- Checking API protocol compliance in java
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