Dave Thomas

Ecoop 2006 - Object-oriented Programming: 20th European Conference, Nantes, France, July 3-7, 2006, Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science Dave Thomas

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references.; Also available in print.; Electronic reproduction.; UK: MyiLibrary; 2008. Table of Contents: Keynote.- Design Patterns 15 Years Later.- Program Query and Persistence.- codeQuest: Scalable Source Code Queries with Datalog.- Efficient Object Querying for Java.- Automatic Prefetching by Traversal Profiling in Object Persistence Architectures.- Ownership and Concurrency.- The Runtime Structure of Object Ownership.- On Ownership and Accessibility.- Scoped Types and Aspects for Real-Time Java.- Transparently Reconciling Transactions with Locking for Java Synchronization.- Special 20th Anniversary Session.- Object Technology A Grand Narrative?.- Peak Objects.- From ECOOP 87 to ECOOP 2006 and Beyond.- The Continuing Quest for Abstraction.- Early Concurrent/Mobile Objects.- Keynote.- Turning the Network into a Database with Active XML.- Languages.- SuperGlue: Component Programming with Object-Oriented Signals.- Ambient-Oriented Programming in AmbientTalk.- Responders: Language Support for Interactive Applications.- Type Theory.- Variance and Generalized Constraints for C Generics.- A Semantic Analysis of C++ Templates.- Session Types for Object-Oriented Languages.- Parameterized Modules for Classes and Extensible Functions.- Keynote.- The Closing of the Frontier.- Tools.- Augmenting Automatically Generated Unit-Test Suites with Regression Oracle Checking.- Automated Detection of Refactorings in Evolving Components.- Modeling Runtime Behavior in Framework-Based Applications.- Modularity.- Modular Software Upgrades for Distributed Systems.- Demeter Interfaces: Adaptive Programming Without Surprises.- Managing the Evolution of Aspect-Oriented Software with Model-Based Pointcuts."Publisher Marketing: Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2006, held in Nantes, France in July 2006. This book features the papers that are organized in topical sections on program query and persistence, ownership and concurrency, languages, type theory, tools, and modularity.

Contributor Bio:  Thomas, Dave Dave Thomas is a programmer who likes to evangelize cool stuff. He cowrote "The Pragmatic Programmer" and was one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto. His book "Programming Ruby" introduced the Ruby language to the world, and "Agile Web Development with Rails" helped kickstart the Rails revolution.