Patterns of Interface-Based Programming

By: Friedrich Steimann, Philip Mayer

Abstract

Modern software architectures heavily promote the use of interfaces. Originally conceived as a means to separate specification from implementation, popular programming languages toady accommodate interfaces as special kinds of types that can be used — in place of classes — in variable declarations. While it is clear that these interfaces offer polymorphism independent of the inheritance hierarchy, little has been said about the systematic use of interfaces, or how they are actually used in practice.

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Friedrich Steimann, Philip Mayer, “Patterns of Interface-Based Programming”, Journal of Object Technology, Volume 4, no. 5 (July 2005), pp. 75-94, doi:10.5381/jot.2005.4.5.a1.

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