ECOOP 2008 - Object-Oriented Programming

It is a pleasure to present the proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008) held in Paphos, Cyprus. The conference continues to serve a broad object-oriented community with a tech- cal program spanning theory and practice and a healthy mix of industrial and academic participants. This year a strong workshop and tutorial program c- plementedthemaintechnicaltrack.Wehad13workshopsand8tutorials,aswell as the co-located Dynamic Language Symposium (DLS). Finally, the program was rounded out with a keynote by Rachid Guerraoui and a banquet speech by James Noble. As in previous years, two Dahl-Nygaard awards were selected by AITO, and for the ?rst time, the ECOOP Program Committee gave a best paper award. Theproceedingsinclude27papersselectedfrom138submissions.Thepapers werereviewed in a single-blind process with three to ?ve reviews per paper. P- liminaryversionsofthereviewsweremadeavailabletotheauthorsaweekbefore the PC meeting to allow for short (500 words or less) author responses. The - sponses were discussed at the PC meeting and were instrumental in reaching decisions. The PC discussions followed Oscar Nierstrasz’Champion pattern. PC papers had ?ve reviews and were held at a higher standard.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2008, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in July 2008.

The 27 revised full papers, presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 138 final submissions. Presenting research results or experience reports in all areas relevant to object technology - including work that takes inspiration from or builds connections to areas not commonly considered object-oriented - the papers cover topics such as design methods and design patterns in analysis, concurrent systems, databases, persistence and transactions, distributed and mobile systems, frameworks, product lines and software architectures, language design and implementation, testing and metrics, programming environments and tools, theoretical foundations, type systems, formal methods, versioning, compatibility, software evolution, aspects, components, modularity, reflection, collaboration, and workflow.