Research Article

Analysing the Java package/access concepts in Isabelle/HOL

  1. Norbert Schirmer*

Article first published online: 27 APR 2004

DOI: 10.1002/cpe.800

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Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Special Issue: Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs

Volume 16, Issue 7, pages 689–706, June 2004

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Schirmer, N. (2004), Analysing the Java package/access concepts in Isabelle/HOL. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 16: 689–706. doi: 10.1002/cpe.800

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  1. Technical University of München, Department of Informatics, D-85748 Garching, Germany

*Technical University of München, Department of Informatics, D-85748 Garching, Germany

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 27 APR 2004
  2. Article first published online: 27 APR 2004
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 13 JUN 2003

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Keywords:

  • Java packages;
  • Java access modifiers;
  • theorem proving;
  • type safety

Abstract

Java access modifiers and packages provide a mechanism to restrict access to members and types, as an additional means of information hiding beyond the purely object-oriented concept of classes. In this paper we clarify the semantics of access modifiers and packages by adding them to our formal model of Java in the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL. We analyse which properties we can rely on at runtime, provided that the program has passed the static accessibility tests. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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