Exception Handling

Events

• initiator of an int. workshop on exception handling in object-oriented programmaint co-located with Ecoop'91 : Infos - Report in Oops Messengers.
• ECOOP'2000 Workshop : (home page , contributions , reference , workshop report ).
• LNCS 2001 Book on : " Advances in Exception Handling Techniques " (reference).
• ECOOP'2003 Workshop : Exception handling in object-oriented systems ,Workshop Report ,Proceedings.
• ECOOP'2005 Workshop : "Systems that handle exceptions" (Proceedings)
• LNCS 2006 Book on : " Advanced Topics in Exception Handling Techniques " (reference).
• WEH'08 : 4th International Workshop on Exception Handling - Colocated with FSE'08
• WEH'12 : 5th International Workshop on Exception Handling - Colocated with ICSE'12

Works

Exception handling for Object-oriented Programming

I have proposed in 1988 an original exception handling system for the Lore Language developped by Yves Caseau that makes an extended synthesis of Flavors, Clu, Ada and Smalltalks EHS systems. One of its originalities is to make it possible to define handlers at the class level, handlers having a well chosen scope and extent. More than just a shortcut to automatically associate such handlers to any invocation of any method of the class, a reuse tool.

• An object-oriented exception handling system for an object-oriented language (ECOOP'88) - reference
• Improving exception handling with object-oriented design (COMPSAC'90) - reference
• Report on the ECOOP'91 workshop on exception handling and object-oriented programming (1991). reference

 This system has been re-specified to fully deserve and integrate the object-oriented point of view in a larger audience language. The resulting specification has been fully implemented in Visualworks Smalltalk.

• Exception handling and object-oriented programming: Towards a synthesis (1990). ( reference - postscript )
  
• A fully object-oriented exception handling system: rationale and Smalltalk implementation> (2000) ( reference , Springer-Verlag related page , )

Exception handling for Active Objects (Agents, Message-Driven Beans, ...)

New trends in exception handling appeared at the end of the 90's on the one hand with user feedbacks on using exception handling in c++, java, smalltalk, clos and on the other hand with new technologies (web applications and services, mobility, concurrency, distribution, middleware ...) have motivated new researches.

In this context I worked with Christelle Urtado and Sylvain Vauttier on exception handling for asynchronous objects (agents, JMS). We have generalized our solution so that it could be applied to any kind of active objects. Could for example be applied with benefit for JEE Message-Driven Beans.

• Improving exception handling in multi-agent systems (LNCS 2003) - (reference)
• Exception Handling and Asynchronous Active Objects : Issues and Proposal  (LNCS 2006) - ( reference )
• Exception handling and asynchronous active objects : State of the art elements . (ANR Report 2007)
• Specification of an exception handling system for a replicated agent environment (FSE'08 WEH Workshop).