Engineering Distributed Objects : Second International Workshop, EDO 2000 Davis, CA, USA, November 2-3, 2000 Revised Papers

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

Wolfgang Emmerich Engineering Distributed Objects The pay-offs for creating distributed applications are in achieving portability, scalability and fault-tolerance. In order to simplify building software that performs robustly regardless of platform or network infrastructure, a new strata of 'middleware' has been created. This book provides a conceptual framework within which to describe object-oriented middleware for the integration of distributed objects. UML is used to explain distributed systems concepts. Presenting both an extended case study and smaller illustrative examples, there are plenty of coded examples in Java, C++, CORBA IDL and Microsoft IDL, which reflect the reality of today's multi-language heterogeneous systems. This is a book for developers who are new to programming in distributed environments. It also supports a variety of courses where the central theme is object-oriented development with middleware technologies. The book shows the middleware concepts and principles using examples taken from: * OMG/CORBA * Microsoft COM * Java/RMI On the accompanying website (http://www.distributed-objects.com) are exercises, sample solutions and working code for the examples. This site is also designed for instructors to assist them with course development and delivery.