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Maintaining behavioral consistency during schema evolution

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Object Technologies for Advanced Software (ISOTAS 1993)

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We examine the problem of how to ensure behavioral consistency of an object-oriented system after its schema has been updated. The problem is viewed from the perspective of both the strongly typed and the untyped language model. Solutions are compared in both models using C++ and CLOS as examples.

Walter Hürsch's research has been generously supported by Mettler-Toledo AG

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Bergstein, P.L., Hürsch, W.L. (1993). Maintaining behavioral consistency during schema evolution. In: Nishio, S., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57342-9_73

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