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O-O Resources and Directories Cetus Links: Object-Orientation The Object-Oriented Page Adaptable O-O Software Systems Cetus Links: O-O Libraries CHOOSE Home Page CHOOSE is the Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments, and is a special interest group of the SI (Swiss Informaticians Society). This page offers information concerning CHOOSE and Object-Oriented events inside Switzerland and elsewhere. Collection of Information on OO Approach CSG Object-Oriented Technology Resources Dick Botting's Object Links Directory of Object Technology EG3 O-O Internet Resources Great Object Oriented Links IBM Application Development and Object Technology Index to Object-Oriented Information Sources Lascelle & Associates O-O Links March - Object Oriented Web Pages OOISC: O-O Integrated Solutions Center The OO SoapBox Object Developers Group Object Development Gateway Object Focus' Object Technology Resource Object Technology Page Object Technology Sites Object-Oriented Bootstraps Object-Oriented Information Sources Object-Oriented Internet Resources Object-Oriented Numerics Page Object-Oriented Programming Resources ObjectDesigners O-O Links OOSE Hot Links Other OO FTP sites Programmer's Oasis Links PROG's General OO Page Quintessoft O-O Links Silvano's Hot Links Spool Links SPOOL is an acronym for Spreading desirable Properties into the design of Object -Oriented Large-Scale System. This page has a cornucopia of links related to this topic. Taligent Object Technology Resources Technion, Object Oriented Programming site Useful O-O links on the WWW back to Object Orientation
O-O Training and Tutorials CRC Cards Tutorial, Brian Gonzalez OOD using Design Patterns Course ISE O-O Technology papers CRC Cards Tutorial, Nils Brummond OOP Transience to Persistence: Architectures & Patterns Broadening beyond objects to patterns and to other paradigms Basic Object-Oriented Concepts Documents/Sources for C++ and OOP The Essence of OOP Fundamental Facts about O-O Architecture Jokes on OO and OOP Home Page Object-Orientation FAQ O-O and Graphical Programming O-O Humor O-O Practitioner Guides O-O SW Design & Construction Object Ideas Tutorial List Object-Orientation FAQ Object-Oriented Programming Object-Oriented Strategies, Cutter Group OO Design Web Reference Home Page OO Design, Terms and Definitions OOP by The Software Doctor OOSC2: Concurrency, Distribution, Client/Server and the Internet OOSC2: Finding Classes OOSC2: Using Inheritance well Ootips - Object Orientation Tips OSU OOP Course Rational Rose OOD Tutorial Scott Ambler's Online Writings Taligent Object Technology Glossary Teaching Object-Oriented Analysis and Design The Coad Letter Archives The Object-Oriented Paradigm, Developer's Handbook What is Object-Oriented Software? An Introduction back to Object Orientation
O-O Groups and Conferences BCS OOPS Home Page Center for O-O Technology & Research COOTS'95 Papers COOTS'98 ECOOP'98 Web Site NSW Branch: Object-Oriented SIG Object-Orientation Ph.D. Network - Home Page Object International Homepage OOPSLA - Index to Conferences OOPSLA'96 Electronic Information Hotline OOPSLA'96 Technical Program OOPSLA '97 - Program OOPSLA'98 - Call For Participation TOOLS USA 1997 USENIX Conference Proceedings back to Object Orientation
O-O Publications Bibliographies on O-O Programming & Systems COOTS '97, Advanced Topics Position Papers CU Arcadia Object Management Papers DIAMONDS Project This home page is designed to introduce the ongoing Software Engineering Research project within the CASE Center, called DIAMONDS. This research is aimed at the discovery and construction of software development methods and corresponding software tools (programs) that improve the quality and productivity of object-oriented (OO) software engineering. DIAMONDS is targeted to support computation on heterogeneous distributed systems. Dirk Riehle IBM Object Technology References Icon Computing Articles Literate Programming and OOP MPI - The Message Passing Interface Standard Object Magazine Online Object Mentor Publications ObjectSoftware's O-O Testing Papers OMG Publications O-O Parallel Programming - Summary of Research Publications on Object Oriented Programming Rational's Technical Papers Taligent Technology & Resources Theory and Practice of Object Systems TOA's On-Line Documents Trends in Object-Oriented Programming U. Arizona O-O Bibliographies ZGDV OOP Documents back to Object Orientation
O-O Systems and Projects ACE: The Adaptive Communication Environment The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment is an object-oriented toolkit that implements strategic and tactical design patterns to simplify the development of concurrent, event-driven communication software. ACE provides a rich set of reusable C++ wrappers, class categories, and frameworks that perform common communication software tasks across a range of operating system platforms. The communication software tasks provided by ACE include event demultiplexing and event handler dispatching, service initialization, interprocess communication, shared memory management, message routing, dynamic (re)configuration of distributed services, multi-threading, and concurrency control. ACT++ ACT++ is a system for concurrent and distributed object-oriented programming in C++. The source code and documentation for the system are freely available as are research papers written about the system. Apertos: the Reflective O-O OS Arjuna Project Information Arjuna is an object-oriented programming system that provides a set of tools for the construction of fault-tolerant distributed applications. Bast - reliable distributed computing Bast is an object-oriented framework for building fault-tolerant distributed applications in a modular and easy manner. It also aims at helping in the implementation of distributed protocols, by providing protocol classes, as well as centralized and distributed design patterns. Cogito Project The goal of the research is to facilitate software production for applications in advanced scientific computing. In particular, the focus is on methods for solving time-dependent PDE problems, for example in fluid dynamics. Current research issues are (a) object-oriented software tools in this area (implementations in Fortran and C++), and (b) methods for automatic parallelization of computational methods in this area. The aim is to design software tools that make it possible to write codes on a high level of abstraction. One important issue in this context is to decouple various program components (grid, grid function, numerical method, mathematical problem), for easier program composition, modification and maintenance. Another key issue is portability between various computer architectures. In particular, an essential subgoal is to make it easier to program parallel computers. DASCo DASCo (Development of Distributed Applications with Separation of Concerns) is a distributed systems development approach based on a "divide and conquer" strategy. This strategy helps to identify minimal domain-specific solutions and how to combine them in different contexts. Moreover, DASCo enforces an incremental development process which incorporates the domain-specific solutions in a stepwise manner and delays implementation in the final target environment. DASCo deals with complexity at both, problem and solution space. Three pattern languages, defining the stepwise development process, are being defined for partitioning, concurrency and robustness concerns at the problem space. The development process is supported by a three-layered object-oriented framework providing design solutions for solution space concerns: concurrency, synchronization, recovery, replication, naming, configuration and communication. Furthermore, the framework also supports multiple concern combinations. For each concern, object-oriented design patterns are being designed such that encapsulation, extensibility, modularity and reusability are qualities present in the solution. Forest Project The Forest project is investigating the use of persistent programming systems for the construction of software development environments. We believe that the persistence and tool integration mechanisms of traditional operating systems are a major limiting factor in the development of powerful, multi-user software development environments. Our intent is to replace the use of file systems and ad hoc persistence mechanisms with typed, persistent objects that are defined and manipulated in a standard object-oriented programming language. The Genesis Project The Genesis class library solely targets the development of business models in C++. It offers the following features: bullet-proof implementation of attributes and associations; scalable object persistency, ranging from file oriented databases to enterprise sql servers; customizable database interface at different levels of abstraction; reusable design patterns like the subject-observer pattern and smart pointers; high portability due to ANSI C++ compliance. The GEO Project at Ubilabs The goal of the project is to devise a component-based software architecture for large-scale distributed object systems. Research is pursued in three related but distinct areas to better understand the different forces which shape viable software architectures. At the conceptual level it makes use of distributed object systems, frameworks, and reflective objects and components. The Globe Project n this research we are looking at a powerful unifying paradigm for the construction of large-scale wide area distributed systems: distributed shared objects. In our model, the universe consists of a vast number of shared objects, each of which has some associated methods. Authorized users of an object may invoke an object's methods. A method can return the contents of a Web page, but it can also accept an email or news message, look up a name in a worldwide distributed database, access a file or perform an arbitrary other action. Gwydion Home Page In this white paper we present our vision of a software development environment that is optimized for evolutionary program development, in which changes and refinements continue to be made throughout the life cycle of the software. We are now developing such an environment, which we call ``Gwydion''[1]. Gwydion will serve as a prototype to demonstrate the power of evolutionary programming techniques (section [*]). We also believe it will be a popular and widely used tool, both in the research community and in forward-looking companies The ITHACA Project ITHACA is an Esprit Technology Integration Project whose aim is to develop an integrated application development and support environment based on the object-oriented programming approach. Illinois Concert Project (CSAG) The goal of the Concert project is to develop portable, efficient implementations of concurrent object-oriented languages. Our approach incorporates aggressive whole program compilation, interprocedural optimization, and an efficient runtime system which works in concert with the compiler optimizations. The Concert System is an embodiment of these techniques, providing efficient implementations of object-oriented programs on a variety of platforms. JACE: Java ACE Java ACE is a collection of Java packages containing classes that have been converted from the C++ version of the ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE). The C++ version of ACE is a large object-oriented network programming toolkit which contains over 85,000 lines of C++ code and uses advanced C++ features like templates. The goal of converting ACE from C++ to Java is to provide a portable programming toolkit with a similar interface and functionality to the original version of ACE. This allows new and current users of C++ ACE an easy transition to Java and also adds significant value to programming concurrent Java networking applications. Note that applications written using Java ACE can communicate seamlessly over sockets with applications written using C++ ACE. The UW Cecil/Vortex Project Vortex is an optimizing compiler infrastructure for object-oriented and other high-level languages. It targets both pure object-oriented languages like Cecil and hybrid object-oriented languages like C++, Modula-3, and Java. Vortex currently incorporates high-level optimizations such as static class analysis, class hierachy analysis, profile-guided receiver class prediction, profile-guided selective procedure specialization, intraprocedural message splitting, automatic inlining, and static closure analyses. It also includes a collection of standard intraprocedural analyses such as common subexpression elimination and dead assignment elimination. The Vortex compiler is written entirely in Cecil. MagicWand The Mjolner System ObjectFarm Object-oriented systems at UCSB The UCB O-O Systems and Compilers research group investigates compiler optimizations for object-oriented languages, related implementation aspects (such as dispatch mechanisms or garbage collection), and studies of the instruction-level behavior of object-oriented programs. Object Systems Group The Object Systems Group is a research group at the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique of the University of Geneva under the direction of Prof. Dennis Tsichritzis. Current research directions of the OSG include theoretical and practical aspects of object-oriented programming languages, multimedia and electronic publishing. OODesigner The OPUS Project There is currently no commonly accepted formal model for object-oriented programming. The main motivation of the OPUS research project is to design an elementary calculus to express object-orientedness. It should model the crucial features of object-oriented programming in an orthogonal way. OZ: O-O Distributed Environment OZ is an objected-oriented distributed systems environment under development to realize worldwide programming environment in which not only data but also services and classes over networks. OZ is implemented on Java. Pampa Project The Pampa project aims to contribute to the safe and sound programming of distributed architectures. We suggest this is best achieved by the design of models and tools which link together programming-models with the distributed execution-model. One of our research directions is to use object-oriented technologies in order to build programming models dedicated to a given application domain: the model is then reified into a framework integrating both design and V & V tools. POOMA - Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications Renaissance Project Renaissance is a project to investigate the applicability of object-oriented techniques to the construction of large scale distributed systems. For a complete overview of the system see our overview paper. The ROOT System Home Page Just like trees and plants, applications need strong roots to grow and flower. ROOT is a comprehensive object oriented framework that provides a solid foundation on which large scale data analysis applications can be built. SCG / Zypher Zypher is an attempt for a cross-fertilization between state of the art object-oriented software engineering and open hypermedia systems. Sina Sina is a concurrent object-oriented programming language, and it is the first language to adopt the Composition Filters Object Model (CFOM). The CFOM is an extension to the object-oriented model and can express a number of concepts in a reusable and extensible way. The Sina language has been developed by the TRESE project as an expressive vehicle for the Composition Filters Object Model. The TRESE project (part of the SETI Group at the Computer Science Department of the University of Twente, The Netherlands) performs activities related to research on compositional object technology. The Spring System. The Spring Project at Sun Microsystems is investigating new technologies for constructing operating systems and for simplifying distributed programming. As part of this work, we have constructed the Spring distributed operating system. Spring is a highly modular, object-oriented operating system, which is focused around a uniform interface definition language. Spring is intrinsically distributed, with all system interfaces being accessible both locally and remotely. TAO: The ACE ORB The TRESE project The TRESE project aims at performing activities related to research on compositional object technology. This research includes the development of object-oriented frameworks, models, methodologies and supporting tools for creating and maintaining adaptable software. The Tycoon Project Tycoon is a polymorphic persistent programming environment for the development of data-intensive applications in open environments. The Tycoon system emphasizes system scalability and interoperability with commercial servers like Ingres, Oracle, ObjectStore, O2, Inquery, SAP R/3, NeWS, StarView, C and C++ libraries, Sun-RPC, DCE-RPC and Kerberos. The UFO Project The United Functions and Objects project has developed a programming language which unites functional and Object Oriented Programming techniques. A large subset of UFO is a pure, higher-order functional language incorporating the OO notions of classes, inheritance, and dynamic binding. Another important aspect is the provision of multi-dimensional functional arrays, with integrated loop structures and monolithic operators, which generalise those of SISAL. However, unlike SISAL, UFO is not a pure functional language. It has stateful objects, which allow programs to be written in a concurrent object-oriented style where appropriate. Safeguards are provided, both in the semantics of operations on stateful objects and in the type system, to minimise the problems associated with introducing state. The Mjolner BETA System Home Page The Mjolner BETA System is a software development environment and tools set for use with the BETA programming language. wOrlds: An Open Environment for Support of Collaborative Activities wOrlds is focused on the development of a next generation computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) framework. Previous CSCW systems have tended to suffer from several problems - they tend to look at small problems in isolation and provide overly-rigid systems for collaboration support. To a large degree we believe these problems arise from an inadequate theoretical orientation to the issues that arise with collaboration support. back to Object Orientation
O-O Theory & Research Foundations of O-O Languages Luca Cardelli - O-O Theory & Research Castagna's Publications Cristina Videira Lopes's WWW Home Page Fzi Prost's Publications Konstantin Laufer's publications MOP and Reflection Related Links Peter Wegner's Home Page Ole Agesen's home page OO Type Theory Object-Oriented Metrics Publications OPUS the Next Generation OOPSLA'96 papers on O-O Metrics O-O Metrics Discussion O-O Systems Metrics POOMA: Parallel O-O Methods & Applications QMOOD++ - automated Quality Metrics for OOD SDCR OO Working Group Strategic Directions in Computing Research O-O Working Group back to Object Orientation
O-O Frameworks Frameworks Home Page Another Frameworks Home Page Application Framework Laboratory We observe that there exist three kinds of application building tools today: general-purpose, domain-specific, and component-oriented tools. ApplFLab's aim is to bring these three styles of application building closer together. It enables the user to create his own user interface components that can be reused like any other standard user interface component. In general, self-made user interface components are domain-specific. They contain all the necessary component logic. They only have to be linked with the domain model. This leads to a component-oriented application building style. Argo - AIV Frameworks Conference Papers Cetus Links: O-O Frameworks Developing O-O Software with Patterns and Frameworks Developing with Taligent Frameworks DASCo DASCo (Development of Distributed Applications with Separation of Concerns) is a distributed systems development approach based on a "divide and conquer" strategy. This strategy helps to identify minimal domain-specific solutions and how to combine them in different contexts. Moreover, DASCo enforces an incremental development process which incorporates the domain-specific solutions in a stepwise manner and delays implementation in the final target environment. DASCo deals with complexity at both, problem and solution space. Three pattern languages, defining the stepwise development process, are being defined for partitioning, concurrency and robustness concerns at the problem space. The development process is supported by a three-layered object-oriented framework providing design solutions for solution space concerns: concurrency, synchronization, recovery, replication, naming, configuration and communication. Furthermore, the framework also supports multiple concern combinations. For each concern, object-oriented design patterns are being designed such that encapsulation, extensibility, modularity and reusability are qualities present in the solution. Dirk Riehle's Frameworks papers DISCUS Framework The Data Integration and Synergistic Collateral Usage Study (DISCUS) has developed a framework for the integration of software applications in distributed workstation environments. The DISCUS framework provides an industry standards-compliant approach to integrating commercial off-the-shelf/government off-the-shelf (COTS)/(GOTS) systems and prototypes. The framework enables low-cost integration of prototype technology in pilot operational environments. Cost of integration will be reduced due to the commonalty of interface descriptions and the reusability of interfaces between alternate applications and platforms. New end-user functionality will be provided through increased capabilities for application data interchange and distributed application control. The framework will enhance the extensibility of operational environments, allowing increased use of COTS and leading edge research technologies. Framework Course Frameworks - Patrick Steyaert Framework-Based Software Development in C++ Frameworks and Design Patterns The GEO Project at Ubilabs The goal of the project is to devise a component-based software architecture for large-scale distributed object systems. Research is pursued in three related but distinct areas to better understand the different forces which shape viable software architectures. At the conceptual level it makes use of distributed object systems, frameworks, and reflective objects and components. GUI Toolkit/Framework Page Huston Frameworks Jan Bosch's Papers Language Support for Design Patterns and Frameworks Leveraging Frameworks The Object-Oriented Framework Bibliography The SanFrancisco Project, IBM Shareable Frameworks Taligent Frameworks Paper's OOPSLA'96 OT Frameworks papers Patterns for Framework Evolution Patterns, Protocols, and Frameworks (Booch) PSL: Protocols and Pragmatics for Open Systems TransFrame - Domain-Specific Frameworks The ROOT System Home Page Just like trees and plants, applications need strong roots to grow and flower. ROOT is a comprehensive object oriented framework that provides a solid foundation on which large scale data analysis applications can be built. Workshop on Language Support for Design Patterns and Frameworks Cetus Links: O-O Libraries Reuse Contracts Logical Frameworks Brian Foote Joseph Yoder's Framework Page back to Object Orientation
O-O Methods, Models and Notations Cetus Links: O-O Methods Cetus Links: O-O Tools O-O Methods Comparative Review O-O Methods: Links, Summaries, Comparisons Survey of OO A+D Techniques, Martin Fowler Booch Method Introduction BON Home Page BON, the Business Object Notation, is a method and graphical notation for high-level object-oriented analysis and design. BON is based on concepts similar to those of Eiffel but can be used independently of Eiffel, for example by people using another O-O language for implementation. Many people who are attracted by the power and practicality of the concepts start with BON as their first step towards modern, systematic O-O software construction, even if in the short term they must use another implementation language. Catalysis Converging on OOAD methodology agreement A Laboratory For Teaching O-O Thinking The original paper introducing the CRC card technique CRC Cards, Ward and Kent's seminal paper CRC Cards Tutorial, Brian Gonzalez CRC Cards Tutorial, Nils Brummond Demeter's WWW Home Design by Contract Discovery Home Page The "Discovery" development method for O-O systems. Fusion Object-Oriented Development on the Web Icon Computing Comparison of OOA/D Methods ION Homepage Composition Filters Object Model MOSES Home Page Object-Oriented Change and Learning Object-Oriented System Development: HTML Edition Object Petri Nets, Univ. of Tasmania Object Petri Nets (OPNs) extend the formalism of Coloured Petri Nets with a complete integration of object-oriented features, including inheritance, polymorphism and dynamic binding. The object-orientation provides powerful structuring primitives allowing the modelling of complex systems, including those with multiple levels of activity. OCL - Object Constraint Language for UML OCTOPUS - an OO realtime embedded systems method OPEN (O-O Process, Environment and Notation) OOAD Methods Comparative Review OMT Papers from Rational OMT++ POOMA - Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications SCRUM Home Page Jeff Sutherland's SCRUM Page Shlaer-Mellor Method Syntropy The Unified Modeling Language UML Dictionary UML Center, Platinum Technology UML for Real-Time Systems Design UOL: Universal Object Language for UML and OML Quality Software and the UML Use-Case FAQ Use-Case Resources Page Use-Cases Workshop (OOPSLA) Use-Cases, Alistair Cockburn Use-Cases adorned with Goals Use-Cases intro (from UML Distilled) Using Use-Cases, Paul Beaudry back to Object Orientation
O-O Software Development Aspect-Oriented Programming Home Page Cetus Links: O-O Metrics Cetus Links: O-O Tools Cetus Links: Software Reuse ECOOP '96 Adaptability Workshop Genitor - Building a Rapid ODE Genitor is a suite of development tools that assists C/C++ developers in implementing and reusing objects. A graphical editing environment lets developers rapidly construct any kind of class, function, struct, union, or template. Genitor stores objects in one or more shared repositories. Powerful search capabilities help users quickly locate and reuse objects developed by any member of their project team. Genitor generates compiler-ready code as well as printed and online documentation. Cetus Links: O-O Testing Design of Object-Oriented Real-time Systems DesignFest '97 Home Page DesignLab '96 Issues in Large O-O Systems Jeff Sutherland's Object Technology Web Site Law of Demeter Measures of Goodness O-O Information Systems O-O Projects and Teams O-O Systems & Modeling Labs Object-Oriented Design Workshop Object-oriented Paradigm Group Object-Oriented Programming Objectifying Information Technology OSM Lab Home Page OT, Architectures, and Domain Analysis A Question of Balance The Rational Approach The Rational Development Process RBSC O-O Testing Papers Reuse Contracts Richard T. Due' Software as a Strategic Weapon back to Object Orientation
O-O Business Object & Process Engineering BPR On-Line Learning Center BPRPatternLanguage Business Object Design and Implementation Business Object Design and Implementation II Business Objects for Corporate Information Systems Business Object Glossary Business Object Page Business Transformation Book Caf� Cetus Links: Business Objects CEBUSNET CEBUSNET: Collecting, Deriving, Describing, Verifying, Consolidating, and Disseminating Business Best Practices within Business Processes. Convergent Engineering Convergent Engineering is he synthesis of business and software engineering into a coherent, unified discipline. The goal of convergent engineering is to produce efficient, effective designs which represent both a business and its supporting software systems. Object technology is the critical enabler for this discipline because it permits the fundamental elements of a business design, such as customers and products, to be represented directly in the form of executable business objects. DTIC's BPR Help Desk, Home Page INSTRUMENTS Home Page Tools and Techniques for Integration of Workflow with Groupware and BPR INSTRUMENTS main objectives are: To provide the mechanisms to choose, use and interoperate in the optimum way workflow systems, groupware environments and BPR decision support tools. To contribute to the improvement of work processes in users' organization, by exploiting workflow, groupware and BPR decision support tools. Michael Beedle's Home Page OMG Business Application Architecture Poly-wha? Business Object Terminology Information Architecture and Process Innovation Successfully Performing BPR back to Object Orientation
O-O Distributed Systems back to Object Orientation back to Brad Appleton's WWW Links back to Brad Appleton's Home Page ORBs - Object Request Brokers (24 links) ORBs - Object Request Brokers Cetus Links: CORBA Cetus Links: Object Request Brokers CORBA CORBA IDL Design Patterns and Idioms CORBA and OMG Resources, LANL CORBA, a brief tutorial CORBAnet - The ORB Interoperability Showcase CORBAservices Index Distributed Object Computing and CORBA Documents The Electra Object Request Broker Expersoft's CORBA Programming & Principals HORB - a free Java ORB HORB is a freely available object request broker written entirely in Java. It allows Java programs to call other objects on a remote server. IONA Technologies JacORB JacORB is a freely available, CORBA 2.0 compliant ORB written in Java. It is published under the GNU Public License. Java IDL JavaTM IDL, Sun's 100% Pure Java Object Request Broker (ORB) system, provides the software foundation necessary to deliver enterprise client/server applications for the Internet. Applications that use Java IDL seamlessly integrate with non-Java programs and programs from other vendors. The Java IDL systems is based on the latest CORBA and IIOP industry standards. JIDL: The CORBA IDL Compiler for Java Jorba Jorba is currently work in progress. When complete, it will be a CORBA 2.0 compliant (almost) Object Request Broker suite implemented in Java. ObjectDirector ORB HomePage OmniBroker Home Page A CORBA-compliant, C++ object request broker omniORB2 A free, CORBA2 compliant ORB TAO: The ACE ORB TeaTime - freeware distributed OODBMS Voyager - an agent-enhanced Java ORB Voyager is an agent-enhanced Object Request Broker (ORB) for Java. Voyager allows Java programmers to quickly and easily create sophisticated network applications using both traditional and agent-enhanced distributed programming techniques. Java programmers use regular Java message syntax to construct remote objects, send them messages, and move them between applications. This creates mobile autonomous agents that can roam a network and continue to execute as they move. Voyager Technical White Papers back to O-O Distributed Systems ACT++ ACT++ is a system for concurrent and distributed object-oriented programming in C++. The source code and documentation for the system are freely available as are research papers written about the system. ANSA Distributed Objects and the WWW Arachne - CORBA/Component-based Toolkit Architectural Styles and Design Patterns for Distributed Objects Bast - reliable distributed computing Bast is an object-oriented framework for building fault-tolerant distributed applications in a modular and easy manner. It also aims at helping in the implementation of distributed protocols, by providing protocol classes, as well as centralized and distributed design patterns. Cetus Links: Distributed Objects C++ Report Columns on DOC DASCo DASCo (Development of Distributed Applications with Separation of Concerns) is a distributed systems development approach based on a "divide and conquer" strategy. This strategy helps to identify minimal domain-specific solutions and how to combine them in different contexts. Moreover, DASCo enforces an incremental development process which incorporates the domain-specific solutions in a stepwise manner and delays implementation in the final target environment. DASCo deals with complexity at both, problem and solution space. Three pattern languages, defining the stepwise development process, are being defined for partitioning, concurrency and robustness concerns at the problem space. The development process is supported by a three-layered object-oriented framework providing design solutions for solution space concerns: concurrency, synchronization, recovery, replication, naming, configuration and communication. Furthermore, the framework also supports multiple concern combinations. For each concern, object-oriented design patterns are being designed such that encapsulation, extensibility, modularity and reusability are qualities present in the solution. DIAMONDS Project This home page is designed to introduce the ongoing Software Engineering Research project within the CASE Center, called DIAMONDS. This research is aimed at the discovery and construction of software development methods and corresponding software tools (programs) that improve the quality and productivity of object-oriented (OO) software engineering. DIAMONDS is targeted to support computation on heterogeneous distributed systems. Distributed Computing Research Lab Roster Distributed O-O Infrastructure Issues Distributed Object Computing Group Distributed Object Computing Research Group Distributed objects and components Distributed Objects and Systems Group Distributed Objects and the WWW Dome: Distributed Object Migration Environment Expersoft's Distributed Objects Tutorial The GEO Project at Ubilabs The goal of the project is to devise a component-based software architecture for large-scale distributed object systems. Research is pursued in three related but distinct areas to better understand the different forces which shape viable software architectures. At the conceptual level it makes use of distributed object systems, frameworks, and reflective objects and components. The Globe Project n this research we are looking at a powerful unifying paradigm for the construction of large-scale wide area distributed systems: distributed shared objects. In our model, the universe consists of a vast number of shared objects, each of which has some associated methods. Authorized users of an object may invoke an object's methods. A method can return the contents of a Web page, but it can also accept an email or news message, look up a name in a worldwide distributed database, access a file or perform an arbitrary other action. HCI Distributed O-O Systems Java Distributed Systems MIT Thor System Thor is a large-scale distributed object oriented database system that provides reliable and highly available persistant storage for objects. Thor makes future applications substantially easier to build by providing a high-level platform for application development. Application programmers need not to be concerned with distribution, caching, disk management, and can focus on providing application services to users. Thor allows application programmers to use their preferred programming language and even to develop applications using a variety of programming languages; the components in the different languages will be able to inter-operate by sharing objects in Thor. The objects in Thor are specified and implemented in Theta, a new programming language developed by the Programming Methodology group. Note on Distributed Computing, Sun Labs The Object Management Group OMG Publications Orbis Technology - Sapphire/Web White Paper The goal of Sapphire/Web is to provide the leading "Native Web" Client/Server Application Development Environment for professional developers, end users and the OEM market. Sapphire/Web is designed to simplify application development on the Web, enabling companies to quickly deploy powerful productivity solutions. Sapphire/Web, an advanced 3rd generation tool, is uniquely positioned in the market because of its visual development paradigm, open architecture and robust application production. OZ: O-O Distributed Environment OZ is an objected-oriented distributed systems environment under development to realize worldwide programming environment in which not only data but also services and classes over networks. OZ is implemented on Java. Renaissance Project Renaissance is a project to investigate the applicability of object-oriented techniques to the construction of large scale distributed systems. For a complete overview of the system see our overview paper. Ron Resnick's Distributed Objects and High Availability Page SERL - Distributed OT Research Solaris NEO Solaris NEO is Sun's distributed object environment. It enables companies to bring commerce to the Internet by deploying a corporate web of business critical shared services. Once deployed these shared services can be accessed from multiple client platforms throught the enterprise and the Internet. back to Object Orientation
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