Regardless of the above advantages, there is an ongoing debate in the Java community on whether statically compiled implementations can meet the Java specification on dynamic features such as binary ...

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Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...

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Abstract: Static program analysis development is a non-trivial and time-consuming task. We present a framework through which developers can define static program analyses in natural language. We show ...

Using inheritance, association, overriding, enums, lombok, and static methods to translate a description of the inhabitants of a game world into a set of classes that could serve as part of a model ...