traits.js: Robust Object Composition and High-integrity Objects for ECMAScript 5
Venue
Plastic 2011: International Workshop on Programming Language And Systems Technologies for Internet Clients, ACM
Publication Year
2011
Authors
Tom Van Cutsem, Mark S. Miller
BibTeX
Abstract
This paper introduces traits.js, a small, portable trait composition library for
Javascript. Traits are a more robust alternative to multiple inheritance and enable
object composition and reuse. traits.js is motivated by two goals: first, it is an
experiment in using and extending Javascript’s recently added meta-level object
description format. By reusing this standard description format, traits.js can be
made more interoperable with similar libraries, and even with built-in primitives.
Second, traits.js makes it convenient to create “high-integrity” objects whose
integrity cannot be violated by clients, an important property in the context of
interaction between mutually suspicious scripts
