Extending C++ using the concepts of composition filters

Object-oriented software development increases the reusability, extensibility and maintainability of software. The object-oriented paradigm has, however, a number of deficiencies that influence the reusability, extensibility and maintainability for certain applications. The TRESE project at the University of Twente, the Netherlands developed the Composition Filters Object Model which is capable of solving a number of the deficiencies. The CFOM is a modular extension of the object model. Messages sent to an object are filtered by the filters of the object. The filters can manipulate the message before passing it to the object. We defined a Composition Filter language to express the filters of an object. This thesis describes the extension of the C++ programming language with the concepts of composition filters. We have chosen to extend the C++ language, because at this moment it is the most used object-oriented programming language in the industry. The C++ language is not affected by t..