Sergiy Kolesnikov. An Extensible Compiler for Feature-Oriented Programming in Java

Feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is a paradigm for developing large software systems. Fuji, an extensible compiler, supports featureoriented programming in Java. It does not rely on source-to-source translation but generates standard bytecode, which can be executed on any specifications-compliant Java virtual machine. This allows feature-oriented software developers to benefit from such techniques as type checking or access control, which are indispensable in standard Java compilers. Fuji is based on the JastAddJ compiler. One of JastAddJ’s main development goals is easy extensibility. Thus extensibility is inherent in Fuji. This property of our compiler allows building other tools on its basis and experiment with alternative designs. In this thesis we describe the architecture and design of Fuji, as well as several extensions we implemented showing the extensibility of our compiler.