Synopsis
EDO2000wasthesecondinternationalworkshoponsoftwareengineeringfor distributedobjectsystems. EDO2000wasacontinuationofEDO'99,the?rst workshopinthisseries,whichwasheldinconjunctionwithICSE'99. Distributedobjecttechnologies-asexempli?edbyCORBAandtheCORBA Services,COM+,EJB,andtheJ2EE-areincreasinglybeingadoptedbyvarious enterprisesasafundamentaltechnologyfortheirITinfrastructures. Asacon- quence,extensiveindustrypracticeofusingthetechnologiesisbeinggained. At thesametime,thetechnologiescontinuetoadvanceandnewfunctionalityand servicescontinuetobeintroduced. Inordertousetheexistingandemergingfunctionsofdistributedobjectte- nologiese?ectively,andtobettermeettoday'sdemandingbusinessandcomp- ingrequirements,advancesinsoftwareengineeringmethodsandtechniquesfor distributedobjectsarestronglyneeded. Softwareengineeringfordistributed- jectsistheresearchareathatprovidessolutionsofprovenpracticeforissuesand problemsthatareuniquetosystemsemployingdistributedobjecttechnologies. EDOis the premierworkshopthatbringstogetherthe researchandpractice communityofsoftwareengineeringfordistributedobjects. Wereceivedabout30submissionsandtheinternationalprogramcommittee selected15papers. Weclusteredacceptedpapersintosessionsandtheauthors ofthesepaperschampionedthesessionsandtookaleadinthediscussions. The workshoporganizersselectedparticularauthorstogivebriefpresentationsthat wereaimedtokicko?thediscussionineachsession. Theresultofthedi?erent sessionswassummarizedattheendoftheworkshopandthesesessionsummaries areincludedintheseproceedings. Alsointraditionwiththeworkshopseries,wehadaninvitedindustrialp- sentation. ThisyearWalterSchwarztalkedaboutanenterpriseapplication- tegrationprojectinthe?nancialdomainthatdeployedajudiciouscombination ofdistributedobjectmiddlewareandmarkuplanguagestoachieveintegration of?nancialtradingsystems. December2000 WolfgangEmmerichandStefanTai ProgramCo-chairs EDO2000 Program Committee Organization ConferenceChair: VolkerGruhn,UniversityofDortmund,Germany ProgramCo-chairs:WolfgangEmmerich,UniversityCollegeLondon,UK StefanTai,IBMWatsonResearch,U. S. A. OrganizingChair: PremDevanbu,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,U. S. A. Referees JeanBezivin,UniversityofNantes,France GordonBlair,LancasterUniversity,UK AlfredBro¨ckers,AdessoGmbH,Germany PeterCroll,UniversityofWollongong,Australia ElisabettaDiNitto,PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy AlfonsoFuggetta,PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy WilliHasselbring,UniversityofOldenburg,Germany JusukeHashimoto,NEC,Japan WalterHuersch,Zuehlke,Switzerland ArnoJacobson,INRIA,France MehdiJazayeri,TUVienna,Austria GertiKappel,UniversityofLinz,Austria WojtekKozacynski,Rational,USA BerndKr¨amer,FUHagen,Germany Je?Magee,ImperialCollege,UK NenadMedvidovic,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA NeilRoodyn,Cognitech,UK DavidRosenblum,UniversityofCaliforniaIrvine,USA IsabelleRouvellou,IBMWatsonResearch,USA WalterSchwarz,DGBank,Germany DirkSlama,ShinkaTechnologies,Germany DanielSteinmann,UBS,Switzerland AlfredStrohmeier,EPFL,Switzerland StanSutton,IBMWatsonResearch,USA Sponsoring Institutions AdessoGmbH,Germany IBMWatsonResearch,U. S. A. Z¨uhlkeEngineeringGmbH,Germany Table of Contents Invited Industry Presentation ApplicationIntegrationwithCORBAandXML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 WalterSchwarz MiddlewareSelection MiddlewareSelection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 StanleyM. SuttonJr. AKeyTechnologyEvaluationCaseStudy: ApplyingaNewMiddlewareArchitectureontheEnte
Review
"recommend..."
––CVu, April 2001
"This remarkable book tackles distributed systems in relation to object–orientation and middle–ware. Anyone designing systems today should have a copy of this book on the shelf."
––Computer Bulletin ....Book of the Month, May 2001
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