USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS)
June 17-21, 1996
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Program

TUTORIAL PROGRAM: Monday & Tuesday, June 17-18

TECHNICAL PROGRAM: Wednesday & Thursday, June 19-20

Monday, June 17th

Introduction to CORBA and CORBA Services: Bruce Martin, SunSoft, Inc.
New ANSI C++ Features: Josee Lajoie, IBM Canada Laboratory
Building Distributed Applications With CORBA and C++: Steve Vinoski, Hewlett-Packard
Advanced Modeling and Design for Java Systems: Desmond F. D'Souza and Petter Graff, Icon Computing, Inc.
STL In Action: Graham Glass, ObjectSpace, Inc.

Tuesday, June 18

Java Applets and the AWT: Nataraj Nagaratnam, Syracuse University
Programming Distributed Components Using Network OLE and C++: Don Box, DevelopMentor
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Hans Rohnert, Siemens AG
Inter-Domain Management: CORBA, OSI, SNMP: Subrata Mazumdar, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Introduction to the Python Programming Language: Jim Fulton, Consultant
OO Design Patterns for Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems: Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, Missouri

Wednesday, June 19

Opening Remarks:: Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University
Keynote Address:: Experiences on the Road to Object Utopia: An Industrial Research and Development Perspective
Dave Thomas, Object Technology International

C++

Session Chair: Daniel Edelson, IA Corporation

Compiler Optimization of C++ Virtual Function Calls: Sara Porat, David Bernstein, Yaroslav Fedorov, Joseph Rodrigue, and Eran Yahav, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory
Composing Special Memory Allocators in C++: Keith Loepere, Open Software Foundation
Building Independent Black Box Components in C++: Mark Addesso, Software AG

CORBA AND DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS

Session Chair: Steve Vinoski, Hewlett-Packard

Interlanguage Object Sharing with SOM: Jennifer Hamilton, IBM Toronto Laboratory
Extending a Traditional OS Using Object-Oriented Techniques: Jose Bernabeu, Vlada Matena, and Yousef Khalidi, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Object Caching in a CORBA Compliant System: R. Kordale and M. Ahamad, Georgia Tech; M. Devarakonda, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Asynchonrous Notifications Among Distributed Objects: Yeturu Aahlad, Bruce E. Martin, Mod Marathe, and Chung Lee, SunSoft, Inc.

TOOLS

Session Chair: Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego

Preliminary Design of ADL/C++ -- A Specification Language for C++: Sreenivasa Rao Viswanadha, SUNY Albany
Software Composition with Extended Entity-Relationship Diagrams: Pornsiri Muenchaisri and Toshimi Minoura, Oregon State University
A Measure of Testing Effort: John McGregor and S. Srinivas, Clemson University

Thursday, June 20

PATTERNS

Session Chair: Doug Schmidt, Washington University

Design Patterns for Dealing with Dual Inheritance Hierarchies in C++: Robert Martin, Object Mentor
The Object Group Design Pattern: Silvano Maffeis, Olsen & Associates, Zurich
Pattern Languages for Handing C++ Resources in an Exception-Safe Way: Harald Mueller, SIEMENS

OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORKS AND COMPONENTS

Session Chair: Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems Labs and JavaSoft

The Any Framework: A Pragmatic Approach to Flexibility: Kai-Uwe Maetzel and Walter Bischofberger, UBILAB
Design and Performance of an Object-Oriented Framework for High-Performance Electronic Medical Imaging: I. Pyarali, T. Harrison, and D. Schmidt, Washington University
Class Relationships and User Extensibility in Solid Geometric Modeling: James R. Miller, University of Kansas

DISTRIBUTION LANGUAGES

Session Chair: Vince Russo, Purdue University

A Distributed Object Model for the Java System: Ann Wollrath, Roger Riggs, and Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Smart Messages: An Object-Oriented Communication Mechanism: Eshrat Arjomandi, York University, Toronto; William G. O'Farrell, Gregory V. Wilson, IBM Canada Ltd.
Pickling State in the Java(tm) System: Roger Riggs, Jim Waldo, and Ann Wollrath, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Highly Concurrent Distributed Knowledge Objects: K.L. Clark and T.I. Wang, Imperial College

WRITER'S WORKSHOP

This session focused on three to four of the technical papers presented in "writer's workshop" form. The goal was to focus on the papers selected for the USENIX Computing Systems Journal special issue on Distributed Objects in order to make them more solid before publication.

Friday, June 21

ADVANCED TOPICS WORKSHOP

Distributed Object Computing on the Internet

This one-day post-conference workshop focused on the development of methods, tools, and services supporting distributed object computing on the Internet.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Technical Sessions Program Chair: Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University
Tutorial Program Chair: Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
Program Committee: Don Box, DevelopMentor
Kraig Brockschmidt, Microsoft
David Chappell, Chappell and Associates
Andrew Chien, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Cohn, University of Notre Dame
Jim Coplien, Bell Laboratories
Murthy Devarokonda, IBM Watson Research Labs
Peter Druschel, Rice University
Daniel Edelson, IA Corporation
Nayeem Islam, IBM Watson Research Labs
Dennis Kafura, Virginia Tech University
Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
Dmitry Lenkov, Hewlett-Packard
Mark Linton, Vitria Technology
Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute
Vince Russo, Purdue University
Jerry Schwarz, Declarative Systems
Kevin Shank, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Stal, Siemens AG
Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Research
Steve Vinoski, Hewlett-Packard
Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and JavaSoft
Tutorial Program Coordinator: Daniel V. Klein, USENIX
Conference Planner: Judith DesHarnais, USENIX

USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS) June 17-21, 1996 Toronto, Ontario, Canada