Invited Talks -- Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns — An Overview -- abc: The AspectBench Compiler for AspectJ -- Certifiable Program Generation -- Domain-Specific Language -- A Generative Programming Approach to Developing DSL Compilers -- Efficient Code Generation for a Domain Specific Language -- On Domain-Specific Languages Reengineering -- Bossa Nova: Introducing Modularity into the Bossa Domain-Specific Language -- Aspect-Oriented Programming -- AOP++: A Generic Aspect-Oriented Programming Framework in C++ -- Model Compiler Construction Based on Aspect-Oriented Mechanisms -- FeatureC++: On the Symbiosis of Feature-Oriented and Aspect-Oriented Programming -- Shadow Programming: Reasoning About Programs Using Lexical Join Point Information -- Meta-programming and Transformation -- Generalized Type-Based Disambiguation of Meta Programs with Concrete Object Syntax -- A Versatile Kernel for Multi-language AOP -- Semi-inversion of Guarded Equations -- Generative Techniques I -- A Generative Programming Approach to Interactive Information Retrieval:Insights and Experiences -- Optimizing Marshalling by Run-Time Program Generation -- Applying a Generative Technique for Enhanced Genericity and Maintainability on the J2EE Platform -- Multi-stage Programming -- Multi-stage Programming with Functors and Monads: Eliminating Abstraction Overhead from Generic Code -- Implicitly Heterogeneous Multi-stage Programming -- Generative Techniques II -- Source-Level Optimization of Run-Time Program Generators -- Statically Safe Program Generation with SafeGen -- A Type System for Reflective Program Generators -- Sorting Out the Relationships Between Pairs of Iterators, Values, and References -- Components and Templates -- Preprocessing Eden with Template Haskell -- Syntactic Abstraction in Component Interfaces -- Component-Oriented Programming with Sharing: Containment is Not Ownership -- Generic Programming -- Language Requirements for Large-Scale Generic Libraries -- Mapping Features to Models: A Template Approach Based on Superimposed Variants -- Demonstrations -- Developing Dynamic and Adaptable Applications with CAM/DAOP: A Virtual Office Application -- Metamodeling Made Easy – MetaEdit+ (Tool Demonstration).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering, GPCE 2005, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September/October 2005. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 2 tool demonstration papers were carefully selected from 86 initial submissions following a round of reviewing and improvement. The papers, which include three full invited papers, are organized in topical sections on aspect-oriented programming, component engineering and templates, demonstrations, domain-specific languages, generative techniques, generic programming, meta-programming and transformation, and multi-stage programming.