1:30-3:00pm

Ballroom B

Everyone is building a distributed systems these days, but the "how" has become a matter for religious debate and the "why" is often neglected completely. This panel brings together practitioners from every aspect of industry including middleware customers, vendors, consultants and academics. Each has built at least one distributed system, and will explain:

• why a distributed solution was chosen
• what middleware was selected and why
• what issues and gotchas reared their ugly heads and what was done about it

Moderator: Laura Hill, Sun Microsystems

Panelists:
Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
Tom Barry, LinkSoft Corp.
Don Vines, Genesis
David W. Forslund, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rajendra Raj, Morgan Stanley

Ballroom A

As we reach the end of the millennium, the concept of software reuse and the discipline of software engineering have matured for almost thirty years. Has the reuse community evolved beyond visionaries devoted to an intellectual fad - the early adopters of a new technology? Has this evolution established a state of advancement in civilization with distinctive beliefs and traditions? How has this evolution been successful and how will success be sustained? This panel will share its experience and perspectives with the audience in a dialogue initiated by the following questions and positions:

• What are the most challenging cultural barriers to software reuse?
• What are the "best-in-class" successes achieved with software reuse?
• How is software reuse success recognized and sustained?

Moderator: Steven Fraser, Nortel

Panelists:
Maggie Davis, Boeing
Martin Griss, HP Labs
Luke Hohmann, SmartPatents, Inc.
Ian Hopper, Nortel
Rebecca Joos, Motorola
Bill Opdyke, Lucent

Exhibit Hall C

Ballroom C

Exhibit Hall A

"Compound Types for Java"
Martin Büchi and Wolfgang Weck, Turku Centre for Computer Science, Ċbo Akademi University

"Multiple Dispatch as Dispatch on Tuples"
Gary T. Leavens, Iowa State University; and Todd D. Millstein, University of Washington

"Constraint-Based Polymorphism in Cecil: Towards a Practical and
Static Type System"
Vassily Litvinov, University of Washington