Eliminating Redundancies with a

Abstract: to high maintenance costs. While most experts agree on that,opinions - on how serious the problem of redundancies really isand how to tackle it - differ. In this paper, we present the study ofredundancies in the Java Buffer library, JDK 1.4.1, which wasrecently released by Sun. We found that at least 68% of code inthe Buffer library is redundant in the sense that it recurs in manyclasses in the same or slightly modified form. We effectivelyeliminated that 68% of code at the meta-level...