Object oriented programming

ECOOP serves as Europe's leading forum for practitioners, researchers, and students to exchange ideas in various disciplines unified by object technology. This event features a mix of outstanding invited speakers, refereed technical papers, practitioner reports reflecting real-world experiences, panels, workshops, demonstrations, and an interactive poster session. The 18th ECOOP 2004 conference, held from June 14–18, 2004, in Oslo, Norway, marked another successful year for object-oriented programming, recognized as a significant topic in academia and a vital tool for industrial software development. Object-oriented technology has matured into the standard approach for most software projects, yet the expanding field of applications and emerging technological challenges underscore the need for ongoing research in foundational concepts, design, programming methods, and implementation techniques. There is also growing interest in integrating object-orientation with other software development methodologies, suggesting that object-oriented programming will remain a rich area for research in the future. This year, the program committee received 132 submissions, with 25 accepted for publication after a rigorous review process, where each paper underwent at least four reviews. Topics included programming concepts, program analysis, software engineering, and more, complemented by invited talks from Matthias Felleisen and Tom Henzinger,