Advances in Exception Handling Techniques

J∅rgen Lindskov Knudsen (auth.), Alexander Romanovsky, Christophe Dony, Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, Anand Tripathi (eds.)3540419527, 9783540419525

Modern software systems are becoming more complex in many ways and have to cope with a growing number of abnormal situations which, in turn, are increasingly complex to handle. The most general way of dealing with these problems is by incorporating exception handling techniques in software design. In the past, various exception handling models and techniques have been proposed and many of them are part of practical languages and software composition technologies.
This book is composed of five parts, which deal with topics related to exception handling in the context of programming language models, design methodologies, concurrent and distributed systems, applications and experiences, and large-scale systems such as database and workflow process mangagement systems. The 17 coherently written chapters by leading researchers competently address a wide range of issues in exception handling.

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Table of contents :
Fault Tolerance and Exception Handling in BETA….Pages 1-17
A Fully Object-Oriented Exception Handling System: Rationale and Smalltalk Implementation….Pages 18-38
Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family….Pages 39-59
Exception Safety: Concepts and Techniques….Pages 60-76
Exceptions in Object Modeling: Finding Exceptions from the Elements of the Static Object Model….Pages 77-93
Supporting Evolution of Interface Exceptions….Pages 94-110
Concurrent Exception Handling….Pages 111-127
Exception Handling in Agent-Oriented Systems….Pages 128-146
Action-Oriented Exception Handling in Cooperative and Competitive Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems….Pages 147-164
Exception Handling and Resolution for Transactional Object Groups….Pages 165-180
Experiences with Error Handling in Critical Systems….Pages 181-188
An Architectural-Based Reflective Approach to Incorporating Exception Handling into Dependable Software….Pages 189-206
Adapting C++ Exception Handling to an Extended COM Exception Model….Pages 207-216
Portable Implementation of Continuation Operators in Imperative Languages by Exception Handling….Pages 217-233
Exception Handling in Object-Orienteda Databases….Pages 234-250
Error Handling in Process Support Systems….Pages 251-270
ADOME-WFMS: Towards Cooperative Handling of Workflow Exceptions….Pages 271-288