Dependency Manager (Dem) / Splitcells™ Network

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Objectives

This framework standardizes Java based source code.
The resulting code should maximize support for automatic refactoring like method renaming or moving.
Provide an interface for programs, that maximizes the replace-ability of interface implementations (i.e. dependency injection) and supports the injection of functionality into existing code (i.e. aspect oriented programming).
Enable one to write and maintain long lasting code with reasonable efforts in the context of ever changing language features and dependencies.
- Therefore, make the resulting core functionality portable, adaptable and compatible as reasonable possible. Furthermore, minimizing the complexity of the core functionality is helpful as well.
- Define and enforce a subset of Java for core functionality in order to achieve this goal.
- Provide access to all dependencies via static methods and static final flags, which work like header files in C source code.
- Work with only one global state variable, that represents the complete environment of the current logical process. It can be thought of as a variable, that is implicitly passed through every method call. Multiple global state variables are not allowed.
- Provide an easy workflow to setup an environment, execute a program and to destroy the environment after the execution.
Contain side effects and provide an interface in order to manage side effects.
Organize all things in a tree like structure, in order to support information management.