SOME WEB SITES OF INTEREST
Craig Thompson,Ted Linden, and Bob Filman have a very interesting
article on the next generation of the OMG Object Management Architecture
at ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/ormsc/97-09-01.html
Ted and Craig are also organizing a joint OMG-DARPA conference on
Compositional Architectures in January. There are more details at
http://www.objs.com/workshops/ws9801/cfp.htm
The OOPSLA Midyear Workshops in Applied Object Technology in Vertical
Industries will be held in July in Denver. The call for organizers is
at http://www.amsinc.com/cjava/oopsla2
For some contrasting opinions about Microsoft's position on Java, check
out the ObjectWatch Newsletter at http://www.objectwatch.com/issue7.htm
and the Java Lobby at http://www.javalobby.org.
At the recent OOPSLA Conference, there was a lot of excitement in the
Smalltalk community about a new implementation called Squeak that was
developed at Apple. There is a growing community of developers using
and extending it. Check out http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/ for more
information.
Bob Marcus
bob_marcus@mail.amsinc.com