1986 Reports

MELD/ Features: An Object-Oriented Approach to Reusable Software

Kaiser, Gail E.; Garlan, David

This technical report consists of three related papers in the area of reusable software. Synthesis of Programming Environments from Reusable Building Blocks presents the notion of 'features' as an approach to reusable descriptions for the generation of programming environments. Composing Software Systems from Reusable Building Blocks presents MELD, a declarative language based on features, and generalizes features to the description of reusable software for general applications. MELD: A Declarative Language for Writing Methods focuses on ~1ELD's capabilities for describing the behavior of software systems.