Open implementation

Incomputing,open implementationplatformsare systems where the implementation is accessible. Open implementation allows developers of a program to alter pieces of the underlying software to fit their specific needs. With this technique, it is far easier to write general tools, though it makes the programs themselves more complex to design and use.

There are alsoopen language implementations,which make aspects of the language implementation accessible to application programmers.

Open implementation is not to be confused withopen source,which allows users to change implementation source code, rather than using existingapplication programming interfaces.

See also

• Aspect-oriented programmingas a successor concept in research
• Metaobject protocolfor the primary implementation means
• Software architecturefor organization of software in general

External links

• Links pertaining to open implementation