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

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Distributed Objects, EDO 2000, held in November 2000 in Davis, California, USA.The 15 revised full papers presented together with session surveys were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The book presents topical sections on middleware selection, resource management, architectural reasoning, distributed communication, advanced transactions, and service integration.

Invited Industry Presentation.- Application Integration with CORBA and XML.- Middleware Selection.- Middleware Selection.- A Key Technology Evaluation Case Study: Applying a New Middleware Architecture on the Enterprise Scale.- An Architecture Proposal for Enterprise Message Brokers.- Resource Management.- Resource Management.- The Importance of Resource Management in Engineering Distributed Objects.- Towards Designing Distributed Systems with ConDIL.- Architectural Reasoning.- Architectural Reasoning.- Automatic Generation of Simulation Models for the Evaluation of Performance and Reliability of Architectures Specified in UML.- Architectural Reflection Realising Software Architectures via Reflective Activities.- Using Model Checking to Detect Deadlocks in Distributed Object Systems.- Component Metadata for Software Engineering Tasks.- On Using Static Analysis in Distributed System Testing.- Distributed Communication.- Distributed Communication.- Distributed Proxy: A Design Pattern for the Incremental Development of Distributed Applications.- Modeling with Filter Objects in Distributed Systems.- Advanced Transactions.- Advanced Transactions.- Integrating Notifications and Transactions: Concepts and X2TS Prototype.- Advanced Transactions in Enterprise JavaBeans.- Service Integration.- Service Integration.- Customizable Service Integration in Web-Enabled Environments.- Migrating and Specifying Services for Web Integration.