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Second USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS), 1996
The Any Framework - A Pragmatic Approach to Flexibility
Kai-Uwe Maetzel and Walter Bischofberger
UBILAB
Union Bank of Switzerland
Abstract
During the development of Beyond-Sniff, a distributed multi-user
development platform, we were confronted with various, apparently
unrelated problems: data, control, and user interface integration of
distributed components, system configuration, user specific
preferences, etc. Undoubtedly, it is not trivial to find solutions for
such issues, but C++ makes it even more challenging due to its static
nature and insufficient meta-information. To overcome these
shortcomings, we implemented a small and powerful framework called
Any. The Any framework augments C++ with a flexible, dynamic,
garbage-collected data representation mechanism. It serves as a
language-independent data integration vehicle and provides data
management and declarative retrieval facilities.
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