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ASDF is designed in an object-oriented way from the ground up.
Both a system’s structure and the operations that can be performed on systems
follow a protocol.
ASDF is extensible to new operations and to new component types.
This allows the addition of behaviours:
for example, a new component could be added for Java JAR archives,
and methods specialised on compile-op
added for it
that would accomplish the relevant actions.
This chapter deals with components, the building blocks of a system, and operations, the actions that can be performed on a system.
• Operations: | ||
• Components: |