Dynamic Linking in Eiffel (DLE)

Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION: THE DLE AND ITS PURPOSE

2 THE GENERAL DLE SCHEME

3 USING DYNAMIC CLASSES

3.1 Preparing the Ace
3.2 Taking advantage of the DLE mechanism
3.3 Retrieving dynamic classes
3.4 Producing instances of dynamic classes
3.5 The overall scheme

4 USING DYNAMIC FEATURES

5 A SUMMARY OF LIBRARY CLASSES AND FEATURES

6 PRODUCING DYNAMIC CLASSES

7 IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS

8 ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINTS

9 RESTRICTIONS

Appendix A : Validity constraints

Appendix B : Class specification

8.1 Class DYNAMIC
8.2 Class DYNAMIC_CLASS
8.3 Class DYNAMIC_FEATURE

Report identification

ISE Technical Report TR-EI-49/DL: Dynamic Linking in Eiffel (DLE).

Publication history

First published: September 1994 (original title: Dynamic Linking in Eiffel: A Specification).

Versions:

3.2.8, September 1994.

3.2.9, 20 October 1994.

3.3.5 (preliminary), 12 May 1995.

3.3.5, 9 June 1995; revised title. Corresponds to version 3.3.5-DLE of the ISE Eiffel environment.

3.3.9, 6 February 1996 (this version); HTML version for Web access. Up-to-date with current release of the ISE Eiffel environment.

Authors

Bertrand Meyer, Éric Bezault.

Copyright notice and proprietary information

Copyright Interactive Software Engineering Inc. (ISE), 1994, 1995.