Factoring Mechanism of Reverse Inheritance

In this paper we present a new approach for facilitating the maintenance, reengineering and adaptation of class libraries designed using object-oriented technology. The technique uses a new class relationship called reverse inheritance. We strive to prove that using this class relationship with it's factoring supporting mechanism it is possible to factor features from a hierarchy, to add new features to a hierarchy, and to connect two class hierarchies. Also in the paper a list of problems relative to the new approach is formulated.

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