Context-oriented Programming.

Context-oriented Programming

Context-dependent behavior is becoming increasingly important for a wide range of application domains, from pervasive computing to common business applications. Unfortunately, mainstream programming languages do not provide mechanisms that enable software entities to adapt their behavior dynamically to the current execution context. This leads developers to adopt convoluted designs to achieve t...

Context - Oriented Programming

Context-oriented programming (COP) introduces one more notion to reason about the structure of software systems: a context (an environment) is a set of entities bound with a system of relations. This view is applicable where the object-oriented one is inadequate. Implementation of COP requires the same techniques as OOP: COP and OOP are different things assembled from the same components. COP a...

ContextJ: Context-oriented Programming with Java

Context-oriented programming (COP) allows for the modularization of context-dependent behavioral variations. So far, COP has been implemented for dynamically-typed languages such as Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, and Ruby relying on reflection mechanisms, and for the statically-typed programming language Java based on a library and a pre-processor. ContextJ is our COP implementation for Java. It prop...

Context-Oriented Programming for Pervasive Systems

Context-oriented Programming With Only Layers

Most if not all extensions to object-oriented languages that allow for context-oriented programming (COP) are asymmetric in the sense that they assume a base implementation of a system to be composed into classes and a set of layers to provide behavioral variations applied to those classes at run-time. We propose L as an experimental language to further explore the design space for COP language...