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This paper presents OpenJava, which is a macro system that we have developed for Java. With traditional macro systems designed for non object-oriented languages, it is difficult to write a number of macros typical in object-oriented programming since they require the ability to access a logical structure of programs. One of the drawbacks of traditional macro systems is that abstract syntax trees are used for rep-resenting source programs. This paper first points out this problem and then shows how OpenJava addresses this problem. A key idea of Open-Java is to use metaobjects, which was originally developed for reflective computing, for representing source programs.
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Tatsubori, M., Chiba, S., Killijian, MO., Itano, K. (2000). OpenJava: A Class-Based Macro System for Java. In: Cazzola, W., Stroud, R.J., Tisato, F. (eds) Reflection and Software Engineering. OORaSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45046-7_7
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