Refactoring Composite to Visitor and Inverse Transformation in Java

Akram Ajouli (1) , Julien Cohen (2)

1 ASCOLA - Aspect and composition languages
2 LINA - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique

We describe how to use refactoring tools to transform a Java program conforming to the Composite design pattern into a program conforming to the Visitor design pattern with the same external behavior. We also describe the inverse transformation. We use the refactoring tool provided by IntelliJ IDEA.

Mots clés: refactoring; design patterns; program transformations; visitor; composite; Java; static composition

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Akram Ajouli, Julien Cohen. Refactoring Composite to Visitor and Inverse Transformation in Java. 2013. ⟨hal-00652872v3⟩