(CMCc 20120207) It is possible to derive from TclOO's oo::class and create meta classes that perform additional actions upon object instance creation, method creation, etc..
oo::socket looks like oo::class, but as a side-effect creates a listener socket (specified by additional arguments to the oo::socket create or oo::socket new commands) that constructs a new instance of the class to service each new connection. The object created will be named for the socket. The example class, ::echo (given below) merely echoes what it receives.
# oo::socket.tcl - class to listen on a given port, etc package provide oo::socket 1.0 oo::class create oo::socket { method listen {params} { set -tls {} set -port 8080 dict with params {} ::socket -server [list ::apply [list {class opts sock ipaddr rport} { if {[dict exists $opts -tls] && [dict get $opts -tls] ne {}} { set tlsopts [dict merge { -certfile server-public.pem -keyfile server-private.pem -cadir . -cafile ca.pem -ssl2 0 -ssl3 1 -tls1 1 -require 0 -request 1 } [dict get $opts -tls]] if {[dict exists $opts -progress]} { set progress "-command [dict get $opts -progress]" } else { set progress {} } if {[dict exists $opts -password]} { set password [list -password [list ::apply [list {} [list return "\"[dict get $opts -password]\""]]]] } else { set password {} } chan configure $sock -blocking 1 -translation {binary binary} tls::import $sock -server 1 {*}$tlsopts {*}$progress {*}$password tls::handshake $sock } {*}$class create $sock {*}[expr {[dict exists $opts -args]? [dict get $opts -args] : {}}] } [namespace current]] [self] [list -tls ${-tls}]] {*}[expr {([info exists -myaddr] && ${-myaddr} ne "")?"-myaddr ${-myaddr}":""}] ${-port} } superclass ::oo::class constructor {definition args} { next $definition my listen $args return [self] } } if {[info script] eq $argv0} { oo::socket create echo { method readable {} { variable sock if {[chan eof $sock]} { my destroy } else { puts $sock [gets $sock] } } destructor { puts stderr "[self] destroyed" catch {variable sock; close $sock} } constructor {args} { variable sock [namespace tail [self]] puts stderr "[self] connected to $sock" chan configure $sock -buffering line chan event $sock readable [list [self] readable] } } vwait forever }