The Object-Oriented Page
Last updated: December 05, 1996
Because OO info is increasingly populating the web and several excellent OO search engines and
compilation pages have recently appeared, I feel today is more necessary than ever to offer an
accurate set of commented links representing the core of every OO segment (languages, methods,
etc.) from a critic point of view. So I decided to reexamine by hand all the links in this page, modify
the comments, delete some entries, add several new links and revise the page structure. Because this
is hard work (I have to read several hundred of web pages!) I'll be incorporating the changes during
1996 in order to get the new OOPage at January-97, but I'll post the intermediate results. Of course
your help (about new links or extinct ones) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading this
page.
You will find here a lot of links to object-oriented info, as well as comments on object-oriented books,
products, object databases, articles, etc. If looking for FAQs or any kind of usenet info not cited in this
page, you should try the Usenet Searching Tools list. The index follows:
- The Object-Oriented Methods Planning Group
Charter is seeking Participants and Reviewers to carry out the activities of the charter, mainly
intending to facilitate the use of Object-Oriented methods in software engineering (i.e. analysis,
design, implementation, testing and life cycle maintenance.). Participants will partake in the group
activities and help to write the action plan. Reviewers will comment on the work of the participants.
Ada:
- ACM's Ada 95 Information, for obtaining lots of info about Ada 95, the first
internationally standardized object-oriented programming language (BTW, an ISO,
ANSI and FIPS standard). You can get the Ada 95 Reference Manual and jump to
the Home of the Brave Ada Programmers, your hot link to the Ada world.
- The Ada IC (Information Clearinghouse) Home Page brings you an ordered index to
access to lots of Ada Resources, including those related to Java bytecode
generation, success stories, tools, libraries, compilers and a free subscription to
AdaIC News. Hmmm, Ada isn't an US property, so feel free to love this language.
Agora:
Agora is a prototype-based language solely based on message passing,
developed at the Programming Technology Lab of Brussels Free University,
Department of Computer Science. It incorporates features like mixin method based
inheritance, reflection and encapsulated inheritance on objects, and has a clean
formal foundation. You will find here C++, Smalltalk, Scheme and Minimix
implementations of Agora-9X, as well as written intentions to add static typing to the
language.
Beta:
- The Beta Home Page, at Aarhus University in Denmark, and the Mjølner
Beta System Home Page (Mjølner is the name of the Thor's hammer) are the main
pages to find info about the public domain Beta language. As stated in the complete
and regularly updated Beta FAQ, "BETA is a modern object-oriented language
with comprehensive facilities for procedural and functional programming" and,
interestingly enough, the 'Pattern' concept is its basic construct from where objects
are constructed. But 'Beta' is one of the buzzwords in the software industry, so why
was this name chosen for a language? A long history! Beta implements Gamma,
which appeared as a variation of Delta (now extended with Epsilon), which tried to
extend the Simula Languages! As far as I can see, Greek characters have their own
place in Nordic Universities :-). Certainly every extension to Simula should merit to
be considered carefully, so why not give a chance to Beta?
Blue:
The Blue Page (Teaching Object-Oriented Programming) brings you info about
Blue, an pure OOPL similar to C++ developed specially for teaching, with strong
type checking, single inheritance, assertions, preconditions and postconditions. Best
of all: Blue and the Blue development environment are free. So consider Blue as an
attractive alternative to teach OO concepts to first year students.
CLOS:
- Common Lisp Object System info is what you'll find at the Franz Inc. page. CLOS is
the first ANSI standardized OO programming language and ADA95 the first
standardized ISO OOPL: the discussion about primacies is served. Despite of these
order questions CLOS is really impressive. Well, try it! Franz Inc. offers you free
evaluation (lite) versions and reports about how integrate CLOS, C++ and Java.
C++:
- The C++ Virtual Library, your starting point to C++ courses, docs, newsgroups, etc.
Really this page is the more complete collection of pointers to C++ sites I know. A
reference to The HTML formatted version of the draft C++ standard is also included
here.
- C++ Annotations, a short C++ course for C programmers.
- STL (Standard Template Library): If you are interested in the C++ STL, look at this
page maintained by Dave Musser, one of the creators of the associative container
implementations. You can also get the HP public version of STL, as released by
Alexander Stepanov & Meng Lee. The STL is actually being implemented by
various vendors to give it a friendly interface: among them you can find Modena
Software, Rogue Wave and ObjectSpace, each one showing a different approach to
facilitate its use (much in the way of the iostream library): ObjectSpace adds some
algorithms (a consistent approach with respect to the STL spirit) and the other use
derivation.
- The Larch/C++ Project describes Larch/C++, an interface specification language for
C++, mathematically based on the Larch Shared Language (LSL). If interested in
exploring methods, languages and tools for the practical use of formal specifications,
try the Larch Home Page.
Dylan:
- The Dylan Home Page brings you the Dylan FAQ, examples code, some
historical design notes and the complete language reference manual from Apple, from
where you will learn about the Dylan object-oriented dynamic language, essentially
based in objects and functions (a class of objects too), and with a cosmical class
heterarchy (all derive from "object").
- The Gwydion Project Dylan Page at Carnegie-Mellon University is another
important Dylan site. They are developing a high-quality integrated development
environment for unix, called Gwydion.
Eiffel:
- Getting started with Eiffel: an hypertutorial to the Eiffel language for newcomers
impressed, as me, by Meyer's "Object Oriented Software Construction" 1988 book.
- An Invitation to Eiffel is a copyrighted (you can only browse it) on-line document
derived from chapter 1 of the book Eiffel: The Language, intended to introduce
Eiffel OOPL.
- The Eiffel Page in the University of Wales College of Cardiff's server, a fully devoted
Eiffel page containing FAQs, events, organizations, comp.lang.eiffel threads, and ...
even a link to C++-critique.ps ("Desmentir las calumnias es repetirlas", Calderón
pointed out).
- ISE WWW Main Page, the site of Interactive Software Engineering Inc., the
Bertrand Meyer's company. You can also try Eiffel: A Software Engineer's Dream,
derived from the ISE page and mirroring it.
- Building bug-free O-O software: An introduction to Design by Contract is an
very interesting Bertrand Meyer's article that try to communicate to the reader the
high importance of Designing by Contract, as a key concept in Object Orientation.
- Why your next project should use Eiffel is the on-line version of the article that
Bertrand Meyer published in the special May-96 JOOP issue dedicated to Eiffel
10th Anniversary. I really enjoyed this text, as I hope you, anonymous reader, do.
Well, maybe Dr. Miguel Katrib, colleague and friend, has finally transmitted me, after
many discussions, some of his passionate love for Eiffel!
- Geoff's Universal Eiffel Resource Locator (GUERL) is a personal page
containing miscellaneous and enthusiastic info about Eiffel and Bertrand Meyer
(including a BM tribute by analogy!). Undoubtedly more passionate than the ISE
pages, the reader will find here OOPL comparisons, links to download free Eiffel
compilers and tons of links Eiffel-related.
Java:
- The Java: Programming for the Internet is the main page for accessing the
Java menu, from where you can buy your Java t-shirts and mugs, preview the Java
Delopers Kit (JDK) 1.1, download som Java products from the JavaSoft Products
and Services page, or even a short paper describing the Java language. But, what's
about Java? Why all this excitation? Humm ... mix freely C++, Smalltalk and
Objective-C, extract the "obscure" features, clean some absurd restrictions, eliminate
those dangerous pointers and ... voilà! And the problems? Better you subscribe to
some of the Java mailing lists. Or take a look to the Java FAQ. Or read the
comp.lang.X postings, where X is C++, Smalltalk or Visual Basic.
- Java Books is a page maintained by Stephen R. Pietrowicz containing exhaustive info
about Java language related books.
- What is Java? is a very interesting page about the Java genericity, maintained by
Matthew Austern. In fact Austern and Alexander Stepanov have created the JAL
(Java Algorithm Library), a collection of generic algorithms that resembles the C++
STL (by Stepanov & Lee). The main difference is that genericity is absent in Java, so
the JAL operates on one-dimensional arrays and use a Perl script to instantiate to
create the appropriate Java packages for the concrete desired type.
LENS:
- The compact programming language LENS (Late-bound Encapsulated Name
Spaces) orthogonally combines three fundamental OO concepts: late binding
(through message passing), (multiple) inheritance and encapsulation. Object
templates, classes or prototypes, are absent. Instead, inheritance is promoted as the
only genericity mechanism. In fact a LENS program consists of nested name spaces
that can be encapsulated and refined dynamically. Name spaces are first class: they
represent objects. The access to variables and methods is slot-based.
Modula-3:
- Modula-3 Home Page brings you a map of Modula-3 resources in the web,
including some interesting articles and tutorials, as well as bibliography, syntax notes,
reference manuals and info about SRC Modula-3 release 3.5.3 and later.
- The Modula-3 FAQ, WWW and FTP archive is a searchable index containing links
to Modula-3 binaries and some responses to diverse inquiries: projects, commercial
offerings, etc.
- Threads: A Modula-3 Newsletter is a free on-line magazine devoted to Modula-3,
including articles, events and visions from industry, academia, etc.
Objective-C:
- The Objective-C WWW Home Page, maintained by Steve Dekorte,
contains an hypertext formatted version of the Objective-C FAQ, as well as info on
news, links, projects, success stories, O-C consulting firms (to add your page),
software, etc.
- Index of Objective C information represent the Nelson Minar's personal effort to
collect Objective-C info in the Web.
- Tutorials? If you find A 10-Minute Introduction to Objective-C too short, try the
Object Oriented Programming in Objective-C page.
- The usenet Objective-C FAQ.
OO-COBOL:
- OO-COBOL, the COBOL Big Brother which now perfectly should exclaim "The
report of my death was an exaggeration" (Mark Twain). Currently under working
in the X3J4.1 Object-Oriented COBOL Task Group, although the expected great
amount of OO-COBOL pages is yet to come.
- You can find interesting the Jeff Sutherland's "C++, OO COBOL, and Smalltalk:
Good, Better, Best" article (stating somewhat subjective, Smalltalk forced view).
- The Micro Focus Object COBOL Home Page is one of the first places to show
some Object-Oriented COBOL info, but mainly (and solely) devoted to the Micro
Focus products on OS/2, NT & Win95.
Python:
- The Python Language Home Page and the Python FAQ both bring you info
about the Python OO free and non-propietary language (Your support joining the
PSA would be greatly appreciated). Look at the big amount of Python resources
shown here and change the idea you had of Python as a "experimental" language:
core sources, several OS portings, docs, confs, books, etc. BTW Python is being
considered by some companies as an alternative to Java: Opinions? To equilibrate,
why don't you try the CRNI's Python Grail Internet browser? Grail (Python & Tk) is
capable of downloading and running applets written in Python, as well as being
extended by plug-in modules.
Sather:
- The Sather home page. Sather, as stated in the Eiffel FAQ, is an object-oriented
language, originally patterned after Eiffel, created by Stephen Omohundro and others
at ICSI of Berkeley, CA. The page includes reference manual and tutorials.
Self:
- Self Home Page, with pointers to several areas of the Self Project, intended "to
making the world safe for objects", and where you can get the last release of the Self
System (4.0) and a Smalltalk mapping, among several interesting articles on OO,
RAD and dynamic OO languages. If you look for an alternative to static inheritance,
try the Self delegation features! You can also join the self-interest mailing list.
Sina:
- Sina is a concurrent object-oriented programming language, and it is the first
language to adopt the Composition Filters Object Model (CFOM). The CFOM is
an extension to the object-oriented model and can express a number of concepts in a
reusable and extensible way. The CFOM has been developed by the TRESE
project of the University of Twente Computer Science Department, which performs
activities related to research on compositional object technology.
Smalltalk:
- The Jeff McAffer's Smalltalk links page is a good collection of Smalltalk resources in
the net (web), with many many links to interesting Smalltalk sites (fortunately
commercial only sites have been filtered).
- The Smalltalk Archive Base Page at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
with applications, source code, etc.
- At The Smalltalk Developer's Site you'll find info about Smalltalk practical
development.
- Francois PACHET's Bookmarks is a great collection of Smalltalk links and goodies
(with other personal and musical stuff) maintained by Francois Pachet, from
Laboratoire LAFORIA, who brings you the ESUG (European Smalltalk User
Group) page too. Smalltalk vendors, implementations, conferences, applications,
goodies, frameworks, research groups, etc. can be found here.
- The Serge Stinckwich's Smalltalk Page shows links to Smalltalk vendors, archives
and other interesting Smalltalk sites (including Jobs for Smalltalkers in Europe and
North-America).
- The Larch/Smalltalk Project is a page about Larch/Smalltalk (actually in beta
release), an interface specification language for Smalltalk.
- Try the Smalltalk FAQ at Berkeley, compiled by Craig Latta.
Theta:
- Theta is an OOPL under development by the PMG in MIT's LCS, mainly devoted
to implement objects in the Thor ODB, but perfectly working as standalone. You
can browse the online Theta Reference Manual or download the ps file, or study the
Theta code in a sample program (Ical) translated from C++.
Other OOPLs:
- For other languages look at The Language List, which proclaims to collect
"information on about 2300 computer languages, past and present". Languages info
is user-queried, descriptive and short. And if looking for a programming languages
flaming schema, try the links at the Steve Majewski's Programming Language
Critiques Page (with tons of e-ink about C++, C+- and all that stuff, with a little
-well, perhaps distant- remembrance to the Jokes on OO and OOP page).
BON:
- The BON analysis and design method is a short (1 page) summary on the
Business Object Notation, strongly based in three main concepts (succinctly
exposed): Seamlessness, Reversibility and Software Contracting (one of the ideas
behind Eiffel). This method from Nerson & Walden should merit a more detailed set
of web pages, but at the moment you can taste the iterative BON steps in the BON
method.
Booch:
Catalysis:
- Catalysis is a method developed by Desmond D'Souza and Alan Wills which builds
on "second generation" methods such as Fusion and Syntropy. Catalysis promotes
systematic specification and development of re-usable components and architectures,
mainly by refining and extending OMT, Fusion and Objectory methods. The papers
describing the method are very interesting, and explain the contributions and
weakness of other methods with relation to Catalysis, also overviewing it. As their
authors note, Catalysis is based in the practical experience of "several years of
applying, consulting and training" of the authors: pragmatic applications with rigorous
basis.
EROOS:
- The EROOS Home Page is a comprehensive list of publications about EROOS
(Entity-Relationship Object-Oriented Specifications), an object-oriented method
crafted by the Research Group on Software Development Methodology of the
Department of Computer Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, containing
the EROOS Reference Manual version 1.0 and some other interesting papers.
Fusion:
- The Fusion Users Group page is the "official" entry, maintained by guys from HP
Laboratories, to the Fusion OO method (or family of methods, or 2nd generation
method, or ... ). Interesting enough, you will find here info about CASE tools,
contacts, books, articles and real experiences using the Fusion method. Interesting?
Yeah, because many of you probably think of Fusion as a non-comment method. I
have assisted to (and participated in), verbigratia, the efforts to build a bridge
between Euromethod (the European method to contract information systems) and
Fusion, and have heard of many others. Take a look!
- The Fusion Method, a FAQ-like summary note commenting the Coleman et al.
book.
MOSES:
- MOSES Home Page: According to its authors, Brian Henderson-Sellers & J.M.
Edwards, MOSES (Methodology for Object-Oriented Software Engineering of
Systems) "is a full-lifecycle, OO software development methodology" based on an
aggregate of the standard OO fountain lifecycle model, a product lifecycle of three
business-oriented stages, a process lifecycle of five technically-oriented phases
across which are superimposed, and a set of twenty activities which provide the
detailed "how to do it" information. All these aspects are exposed in The Book of
Object-Oriented Knowledge, Volume Two, by the same authors.
Object-Oriented System Development:
- I really must congratulate Addison-Wesley and the authors for this complete html
edition of the 1993 book Object-Oriented System Development (ISBN
0-201-56355-x), by Dennis de Champeaux, Douglas Lea, and Penelope Faure. The
electronic pages also contain an errata file (of the hardcover book edition) and an
useful FAQ.
OORAM:
- Summary Description of OORAM is a very short overview -with some snapshots-
of the Taskon OORAM family of methods and tools for OOA/D and
implementation. Really there is little on-line info for OORAM, so I strongly
recommend you the book "Working With Objects: The OOram Software
Engineering Method" by Trygve Reenskaug (the creator of the
Model-View-Controller concept), Per Wold and Odd Arild Lehne, 1996, Manning
Publications, 0-13-452930-8. This has been one of the very rare books I have read
that is not firstly based in the class/object dichotomy, but it focuses in roles, providing
a methodological framework for developing very large systems. In my modest
opinion, this is one of the most important books on Object Technology published in
the last years.
OSA:
- OSA Tutorial: An htmlized complete tutorial on the OSA OO method, by Embley,
Kurtz & Woodfield (as described in their book "Object Oriented System Analysis:
A Model-Driven Approach"). A great effort and a well polite material. If you want to
know more about OSA, try the OSM Lab Home Page.
Shlaer-Mellor:
- The Shlaer-Mellor Method page is devoted to the S&M well known approach to
OO development based in the two books by Sally Shlaer and Stephen J. Mellor:
"Object-Oriented Systems Analysis: Modeling the World in Data", Prentice Hall,
1988, and "Object Lifecycles: Modeling the World in States", Prentice Hall, 1992.
The page offers a really good overview of the method.
Sintropy:
- Syntropy is a "second-generation object-oriented analysis and design method
developed at Object Designers Ltd, UK", as described in the interesting book
"Designing Object Systems: Object-Oriented Modelling with Sintropy". Formal
specification and refined first-generation OOA/D methods are the fuel of Sintropy,
and the essential, specification and implementation models are the perspectives taken
for the construction of object models. For learning more you should subscribe to the
Syntropy User Group.
UML:
- The Unified Modeling Language is an attempt from Rational (Booch,
Rumbaugh, Jacobson) to define a common core language for all OOA/D methods.
In this page you'll find the UML documents in PFD format and the possibility to
subscribe to some Rational mailing-lists (to keep you in touch with the last UML
details). The version 0.9 of the paper has been submited for standardization to OMG
jointly with HP. If you are avid of info about UML, you should try the UML FAQ,
including some esoteric pages and an invitation to post comments overt the authors.
As UML is becoming a kind-of-pre-de-facto standard in the OO community, you'll
skip this pages at your own risk.
OOA/OOD info:
- A Comparison of Object Oriented Development Methodologies is a 1993 report by
Edward V. Berard at The Object Agency Inc. establishing an own criteria for
evaluating several OO methods and methodologies (OMT, Wirfs-Brock, OMT,
Booch, Berard, etc.). Interesting but old (BTW I bought the report at that time and
found it useful!).
- OO Design Web Reference Home Page: a collection of OO methods and terms, as
well as links to OO search engines in the Web.
- Collection of Information on OO Approach, maintained by Katsuya Amako, is a
recompilation of OO methods and tools, with some overviews of OOA/D
methodologies.
- Tutorial List, from Next Objects Corporation, is a compendium of free tutorials on
Java and Object Technology: Architecture, Basic Objects, Object Oriented Analysis
and OO Analysis shown as a Use Case are some of them.
- The comp.databases.object mini-FAQ, maintained and posted regularly to comp.databases.object
by Tim Harvey, brings you detailed and accurate info about OODBMS vendors and available
products. The FAQ is actually in pure text, but soon will be completely htmlized. Dimitrios Tombros
and Uwe Kunzmann have also provided a web page for the OODB FAQ.
- About Object-Oriented Database Management Systems is the Objectivity's short introduction to
OODBMS.
- OMG Home Page, the Object Management Group's Home Page mostly containing info about the
organization itself.
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- Object Database Management Group Home Page, where you will find info about ODMG, the
de-facto industrial standard for OODBMSs. Literature? Watch at the Rick Cattell's "The Object
Database Standard: ODMG-93, Release 1.1" edited book. But if you're looking for a succinct,
clever and gratifying book on OODBMSs, read "Object Databases: The Essentials", by Mary
E.S. Loomis. If looking for a general overview, try the Bertino & Martino "Object-Oriented
Database Systems: Concepts and Architectures" book, revising some commercial implementations
(well, somewhat old: from 1993).
- Thor is an OODBS developed by The Programming Methodology Group (PMG), a research group
in MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS). Objects in Thor are implemented in the Theta
OOPL but are accessible by client programs written in different languages. The 1993-1994 project
summary reports are available from here.
- Distributed Objects and The World Wide Web. Here you will get info about how ANSA is building
a set of tools to impose a distributed object model onto HTTP. Its objective is to provide a CORBA
based environment from which the web appears to consist of a world of distributed CORBA
objects.
- Distributed Object Oriented Infrastructure Issues is a white paper by Fred Hebbel on CORBA 2.0.
In his own words "infrastructure issues in the context of this document address those details which
deal with rendering, transporting, and making persistent the domain objects of distributed object
oriented systems".
- ObjectBroker is the Digital's implementation of CORBA (the current release of ObjectBroker is
V2.5 and it is compliant with the CORBA V1.2 specification), so this page gives you info about this
product and some white papers, but also about CORBA, OMG, OLE, COM and OO projects
groups.
- X3H7 Object Model Features Matrix, where object model interoperability issues can be found with
respect to several working object models.
- Patterns Home Page maintained by Richard Helm, one of the authors of the GOF (Gang-of-Four)
Book ("Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", by Erich Gamma et
al.), with a link to the Ward Cunningham's Portland Pattern Repository, and pointing to the Patterns
official unofficial FAQ!
- Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers, an htmlized article by
Douglas Lea concerning the mapping of Alexander ideas on architectural patterns to software
development.
- Design Patterns for Avionics Control Systems, as pointed by author Douglas Lea, "the patterns in
this document combine observations, reinterpretations, rational reconstructions, and redesigns of
Avionics Control Systems within the realm of the DSSA ADAGE project", describing
"domain-specific architecture concerns and steps in the construction of an ACS using a minimal
vocabulary". A good point to check out patterns validity.
- Taligent Inc. WWW Home Page, for picking about framework technology and IBM white papers.
For a practical view try the "Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs: Well-Mannered
Object-Oriented Design in C++" book, about C++ framework design, much in the way of other
C++ style books (Meyers, Cargill, Coplien, etc.).
- The Bob Walker's select list of OO sites greatly focuses on Design Patterns, but it also brings you
general object oriented stuff and some interesting personal pages from patterns-enthusiasts (like the
Jim (Cope) Coplien, Ralph Johnson and SOM is the IBM software standard System Object Model,
ORB & OMG compliant (DSOM), "developed to ensure the portability of objects across platforms
and development languages". Questions? Look at the SOM FAQ. The links with the Taligent work
on frameworks? Ask IBM.
- Framework List Index, a cumulative index of Framework Digest as a linear compendium of FWlist
postings, including instructions to subscribe.
- The Frameworks Home Page, located at the University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden, contains
info and refs about Object-Oriented frameworks, including FAQ, bibliography and related topics.
- Gestión de Proyectos Orientados-a-Objetos: Una Incursión Cruenta, por Ricardo Devis, es un
artículo divulgativo (in spanish :|) sobre la confusión actual reinante en la gestión práctica de
proyectos relacionados con la Tecnología de Objetos (OOPM). Dilucidar sobre qué método, qué
herramientas, qué métricas o qué lenguajes elegir es el diario problema de gestores, jefes de
departamento y jefes de proyectos: todo un poema. El autor sostiene, tras pseudo-filosofar un tanto
(con los pies en la tierra, por supuesto), que hoy más que nunca es necesaria una "cultura
humanística de objetos".
- Just some quick notes on the OOB(P)[R] books (simply personal impressions):
- "Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution", by Michael
Hammer & James Champy, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Well, 216 pages of
easy reading (many examples and fuzzy how-to's) envisioning a new more rational
from-scratch-to-effectivity approach for the tomorrow's corporations. A good summer
lecture, indeed.
- "The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering with Object Technology", by
Ivar Jacobson, Maria Ericsson and Agneta Jacobson, ACM Press, 1994. Jacobson's Use
Cases fit the OOBPR niche, describing an object-oriented integration approach with
deliverables, examples and a very clear commercial commitment.
- "Business Engineering with Object Oriented Technology", by David A. Taylor, John
Wiley & Sons, 1995. The first part looks, interesting enough, like the business prolongation of
the Wirfs-Brock book, but the reader soon gets him/her/it/self involved with the Taylor's
Convergent Engineering: a solid practical basic OO framework to face reliable software
development. Taylor nearly should point out: "Process focusing? No, thanks. Do not
substitute: integrate!". Very short and good final taste.
- The Software Reengineering Web Home Page, mostly under construction, is an experimental service
"intended to provide information on Software Reengineering and Maintenance". Its scope is
somewhat far from OO, but unfortunately I have found little net references to OOBPR in the web
(really OOB(P)R proprietary methods seem to be a kind of business competitive advantage).
- The List of OO Case environments will bring to you an impressive list of available Object-Oriented
CASE (OOA/D/P Tools) environments and vendors.
- At Object International you will info to retrieve the Playground shareware automated object
modeling tool for Win32 (it's also included with the Peter Coad's last book: "Object Models:
Strategies, Patterns & Applications") and other commercial tools like "Together/C++".
- Mail to Bezant Object Technologies and obtain some info about its SOMATiK shareware object
modeling tool, adjusted to the Ian Graham's SOMA method (a semantic variation of Coad/Yourdon
OOA/OOD method) well explained in his books. SOMATiK self-proclaims to be an anti-CASE
tool specially suited for RAD. This is not "real shareware": you can *not* try the print options.
- With Class 2.5 and With Class 95, from Microgold Software Inc., are the latest versions of an "old"
shareware OO modeling tool which is not shareware now. Hmm, somewhat rude but with good
manuals.
- From the Object Domain web page you will get the last version of Object Domain which, as its
author Dirk Vermeersch points out, is "an Object Oriented Analysis and Design Tool" that
"implements the Booch Notation as described in Object Oriented Analysis and Design with
Applications, 2nd Ed. by Grady Booch. All six (class, state, object, interaction, module and
process) diagrams can be created using this tool, and C++ code can be generated from the class and
module diagrams.
- The Simon C. Stotbart's CASE Tool Home Page brings you links to many (OO)CASE vendors and
PC tools (Domain, OOther, Dom, etc.) including some listed above, and proposes you to join the
CASE-L mailing list.
- Object-Oriented Metrics is an annotated list, maintained by Robin Whitty, South Bank University,
detailing people and publications about OO metrics, and intending "to offer an expanding coverage of
what is happening where in research into measurement of object-oriented design and programming".
The papers are abstracted w/out www-links, but enough info is provided to contact the sources. The
complete file can be obtained by ftp too.
- Comsoft, the Consortium for the Management of Emerging Software Technology, a non-profit
research org which acts as a meta-center for supporting and coordinating OTCs (Object Technology
Centers), brings you succinct details about the four-volume (opus magna) Object Oriented Metrics
Resource Book (a finished Comsoft project) and its derived handbooks on Object Oriented Metrics
(for Developers and Managers) in the Comsoft Research Products page, with some info about other
research projects (OO metrics productivity tools). You can also access the Comsoft Newsletter and
actually the OTC'96 Call for Papers.
- Benchmarks is a page detailing a lot of benchmarking methods (related not only to OO issues) like
"Benchmarks to Compare Relational and Object Databases", "007 Benchmark and Derivatives" or
"Altair Complex-Object Benchmark (ACOB) and Derivatives".
- Looking for object-oriented testing tools and metrics? You should try the McCabe &
Associates Home Page, where you'll find info about several Visual Quality-Testing-Reengineering
Toolsets designed to analyze metrics on a wide variety of PLs, including object-oriented metrics, the
well-known McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity Metric and other metrics. Did you think the
Cyclomatic Complexity Metric was out? Check out the on-line paper on Structured Testing to be
published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology!
- ACE is an object-oriented network programming toolkit that encapsulates the user-level UNIX and
Windows NT communication mechanisms within type-secure, object-oriented C++ interfaces.
- PRESTO is an environment (codified in C++) for writing object-oriented parallel programs in C++.
Actually runs on Sequent Symmetry DYNIX 3.0 and DEC VAX ULTRIX 2.0. Here you will get the
PRESTO source code, documentation and some simple programs.
- The Object-Oriented Numerics Page details many free and commercial object-oriented numeric
libraries and software (mainly in C++, as expected), as well as projects, conferences and reference
material.
- Fresco, A Fresh Approach to User Interface Systems, is an object-oriented programming
interface (API) for graphical user interfaces, covering functionality in Xlib and Xt, and adding
structured graphics and application embedding. Fresco specification and sample implementation are
under development by the X Consortium as an open, multi-vendor standard. More info? Try the
Fresco FAQ or read the Steve Churchill's Fresco column in C++ Report.
- Constructing Object-Oriented Software in Interactive Graphical Programming Environments: An
Anthology, by Nikos Drakos, from the University of Leeds (no longer there), is a comprehensive
document on Object Orientation and Graphical Programming detailing Graphical Programming
Languages, Simulation and Animation issues, Interface Design concepts and many other topics,
including that of MVC (Model View Controller).
- Prograph Classic is a freeware object-oriented visual development environment for the Macintosh,
from Pictorius, where source code takes the form of executable, iconic diagrams (The commercial
not-free product, Prograph CPX 1.3, is also available from Pictorius.
- Bibliographies on Object-Oriented Programming and Systems: the title needs no explication (files
containing OO bibliography, as part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection). If you
experiment problems when connecting, try this other OO Bibliography Page.
- On-line Object-Oriented HTML Documents from The Object Agency Inc. If want them in text or
pdf format, try the TOA's On-Line Documents.
- Object Oriented Programming, a list of Object-Oriented Software Engineering Abstracts from
Research Access Inc., as they can provoke you to buy some article.
- Object Oriented Programming is a page displaying ftp links and info on OO articles, including
authors and abstracts.
- Top OO Books is a book list, meaning best selling OO books, maintained by COMSOFT and
based on info collected from several bookstores. Como reza un dicho castellano: "Ni son todos los
que están ni están todos los que son".
- Bibliography on OO Testing is a compilation of articles and books on OO metrics and testing,
collected by Bob Binder from RBSC Corporation.
- ACCU book reviews is an alphabetized index of comments on object and non-object oriented
books. If looking for objects, try the O section ;-).
- The North Texas Society for Object Technology (NTS4OT) is a non-profit organization acting as a
forum for the exploration and discussion of ideas related to OOT, with six meetings each year. The
individual membership stands at about 350 and there are several corporate members.
- The Object Orientation FAQ, a comprehensive segmented overview of the Object-Oriented arena,
including languages, methods, etc. Edward Berard, from The Object Agency Inc., maintains an
archive of all the comp.object newsgroup articles since June 1990.
- Classification in the Object Oriented Paradigm from a Cognitive Psychological Perspective: A
Research Proposal is a not-short paper that examines the psychological aspects of the key concepts
of Object Technology. Are we dealing with some kind of Psychological Design Patterns to map the
world to the software domain?
- IBM Object Technology Information for Solution Developers, with many IBM links to the object
world.
- CUI Object Systems Group, relating OSG research projects at CUI, with info on Object-Oriented
languages, systems, developing methods and technical papers.
- Distributed Object Computing: the Distributed Object Management (DOM) project from GTE
Laboratories DOC Group.
- AMOS Homepage, the Active Media Object Stores research info on multimedia DBs.
- Object Technology Resource Listing, coming from SIGS publications, where you also will find info
about the C++ Report, Object Magazine, The Smalltalk Report, JOOP, ROAD and SIGS books
on Object-Oriented Technology.
- What is Object-Oriented Software? An Introduction showing short and very easy details about
Object-Orientation, according to Terry Montlick, from SDC.
- Object-Oriented Operating Systems. In its project, the Multimedia and Mobile Computing Group,
from Ishikawa (Japan), propose "a framework for building application specific operating system
services, in which operating system functionalities such as file services and network services consist
of Customizable Composite Objects". They proclaim that their "framework is especially suitable for
building on microkernel-based operating systems which make it possible to implement many
operating system services at user-level".
- IBM Object Technology: A Revolution in Software Engineering, show links to the IBM range of OO
products and services and some neutral links to OO events.
- CI Labs Home Page, devoted to OpenDoc Technology.
- INFOOP '96 is the Spanish Conference on Object Technology, Alicante, May 6-10, 1996. Here
are some the papers:
- Tecnología de Objetos: Mitos, Hitos y Ritos, por Ricardo Devis: sobre los lugares
comunes y la tontería que anida en el limbo de la "comunidad de objetos".
- Estándares CORBA, por José Bernabéu Aubán: CORBA y sus cuitas.
- Patrones de Diseño, por Ricardo Devis: una leve introducción a los patrones
Alexanderianos.
- Introducción a los SGBDOO, por César Pérez-Chirinos: una aproximación escéptica de
primera mano al universo de los repositorios de objetos, ODMG y algunas otras cuitas.
- OOram: Modelos de Roles, por Ricardo Devis: ¿Por qué vulnerar la clásica dicotomía
clase-objeto? Porque es insuficiente para modelar la realidad.
- II Jornadas de Orientación a Objetos, Oviedo (Spain), March 18-22, 1996.
- ECOOP '96, the Tenth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (July 8-12, 1996,
Linz, Austria), sponsored by AITO, The Association Internationale pour les Technologies
Objets.
- 3rd Pattern Languages of Programming conference (PLoP-96), Monticello, Illinois, September 4-6,
1996. A preliminary announcement and call for papers is available for the joint PLoP '96
conferences.
- 2nd USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS-96), June
17-24, 1996, Toronto, Canada.
- Some Links Object Orientation is an impressive page full of OO links, maintained by
Manfred Schneider, well organized and indexed.1000+ links await you for testing your off-line web
reader! The sections are exhaustive and you've the possibility of collect all the links in a single page!
- Object Oriented Systems, the Galaxy Page devoted to Object Oriented Technology.
- Object-Oriented Bootstraps, for those just arriving to Object Technology.
- Index to Object-Oriented Information Sources, a mirror of the OO info catalog at IAM, containing
some prepackaged queries on OT (Call for papers, FAQs, SIGs, etc.).
- Object-Oriented Internet Resource Page: some explicit and classified OO links from ObjectTime
Ltd., regularly updated and posted to the comp.object newsgroup.
- Interesting Pointers to Object-Oriented Information, showing general object info about
methodologies (like Fusion) and many Smalltalk pointers.
- Index to object-oriented and distributed systems, a well-organized collection of pointers to OO info.
- The Jeff Sutherland's Object Technology Home Page states the "responses to the many Internet
Newsgroup requests for information on Object Technology, OMG, ODMG, ANSI X3H7, ANSI
X3H2, Smalltalk ...". Incredibly up-to-date, this page shows well-formed object centered info with
an adequate and readable distribution.
- Object Port Transport Page, which self-proclaims to be one web-root of OO info.
- Object-Oriented Research Projects are shown here by OO INFO, including Larch, Leda, OZ++,
UFO, ITHACA and many other OO projects.
- Try the Resources For Computer Sciences Page.
- Where is the archive for newsgroup X? If you cannot find here the info you are looking for, try the
Usenet Info Center Launch Pad, where you'll find a lot of useful links stating how to access, consult
or retrieve USENET newsgroups postings. If short, look for usenet resources at the Yahoo -
News:Usenet page.
- You can find any FAQ through the alphabetically sorted List of USENET FAQs, or you can find it
through the Newsgroups available in Oxford list.
- DejaNews Research Service is a free on-line utility to search in all USENET archives, allowing
elaborated filtering of requests by date, author, etc. Really DejaNews is a must.
- The Usenet-Binary Assemblage is a site that has assembled and decoded multi-part uuencoded
binaries that were recently posted to a some usenet newsgroups.
- Stanford Netnews Filtering Service allows you to interactively search in the usenet archives by
composing searching profiles. The interesting thing is that you can subscribe to those profiles, so
SIFT Netnews Server will mail you news postings matching with them.
- Green Eggs Report is a invaluable service (at least for me) maintained by Alice: the Rumor Database
System catch daily all URLs posted to newsgroups, and order them by groups.
Thank you for visiting. This home page maintained by Ricardo Devis (devis@ibm.net or
100140.1435@compuserve.com). Comments (feel free to contact me) and info about new object-oriented
web links are welcomed.
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