And yes, we have yet another publication. This one has been accepted at BCS 2008. The conference promises to be an interesting event, as the British Computer Society managed to line up seven Turing Award winners to give keynote talks. Laurie Hendren, my supervisor, will be an invited speaker. Very unfortunately, I don’t think that I will be able to attend. So in case you go there, good for you and please try to speak with Patrick Lam instead, who will presenting the paper.
Anyway, so what are Object Representatives all about? Object Representatives are a sometimes very useful, uniform static abstraction of runtime objects that we came up with when evaluating tracematches ahead-of-time. At compile time, an Object Representative (OR) is just a plain old Java object that implements the interface below.
