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- Title
Type-based hot swapping of running modules.
- Authors
Duggan, Dominic
- Abstract
While dynamic linking has become an integral part of the run-time execution of modern programming languages, there is increasing recognition of the need for support for hot swapping of running modules, particularly in long-lived server applications. The interesting challenge for such a facility is to allow the new module to change the types exported by the original module, while preserving type safety. This paper describes a type-based approach to hot swapping running modules. The approach is based on a reflective mechanism for dynamically adding type sharing constraints to the type system, realized by programmer-definedversion adaptersin the run-time.
- Subjects
COMPUTER programming; COMPUTER software; ELECTRONIC data processing; ADAPTERS (Telecommunication)
- Publication
Acta Informatica, 2005, Vol 41, Issue 4/5, p181
- ISSN
0001-5903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00236-004-0151-1