The tutorial aims will be achieved by addressing the following specific objectives:

1. Overviewing the technical architectures of leading OTM products;
2. Detailing the characteristics of a significant reference application that has been constructed using each of the technologies;
3. Presenting the evaluation criteria applied to the systems and OTMs;
4. Explaining the results obtained using the evaluation criteria to compare the technologies.

Attendee Background: A basic understanding of objects and middleware technology such as CORBA, Java RMI, DCOM and/or DCE.

Ian Gorton has worked as a software engineer in both research and commercial roles for the last 10 years. Until recently, he was Consulting Services Manager for IBM Transarc in the Asia-Pacific, acting as a distributed systems architect on a number of projects for major clients. Before that he has worked as a consultant for Microsoft Australia, and as a senior academic at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where he still holds a visiting academic position. Ian recently joined CSIRO CMIS to establish a new R&D group in the area of software engineering for distributed systems. He is currently writing a book on OTMs for Addison-Wesley.