Pre-conference Session

Object technology is increasingly recognized as the best approach to building quality software and improving software productivity. Although the basic terms are widely used, they are not always coherently and completely described.

This tutorial presents a consistent, general and up-to-date description of object technology, providing a general overview to people interested in mastering the concepts. Prior exposure to object technology is not required, although the tutorial should be of interest to non-beginners as well as to novices. It is addressed to managers as well as technically-oriented participants.

The topics include:

• Software engineering concerns underlying object technology.
• Key concepts: data abstraction, information hiding, classes, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding.
• Object-oriented languages and environments: a review of the principal offerings.
• Object-oriented analysis and design; UML.
• Object persistence and object-oriented databases.
• Object request brokers; CORBA, COM, Enterprise Java Beans.
• The object industry.
• Current developments and future trends in object technology.

When & Where?

Sunday, August 1
9:00 - 17:00

Fess Parker's DoubleTree Resort
633 East Cabrillo Blvd
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Phone: 805-564-4333 or 800-879-2929

About the Speaker:
Pete McBreen, MSc, is an independent consultant specializing in using Creativity and Objects for process improvement. He provides Quality Assurance, Training and Mentoring in Object methods, and works collaboratively on design and development projects. He has been working in the software development field for 16 years and with Objects since 1990. For the past few years Pete has concentrated on assisting companies taking their initial steps into Object Technology, the most notable project being the C++ Trading Workstation framework for the Alberta Stock Exchange.

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