Table of Contents

Part I. About the Conference: Part II. Speakers: Part III. Abstracts: Part IV. Papers: 1. Faster, better, and cheaper at JPL D. E. Smyth; 2. Delivering the benefits of component software: JavaScript and related component technologies E. A. Van der Veer; 3. ComponentWare® consortium technology plan White Paper B. K. Cottmann and B. H. Cottmann; 4. Retrieving software components by execution Y. Park and P. Bai; 5. Service location in Multi-ORB distributed systems M. Steinder and K. Zielinski; 6. Black-Box Reuse within frameworks based on visual programming B. Wagner et al.; 7. Automatic load distribution for CORBA applications T. Schnekenburger; 8. Mobile agents - mobile components H. Ilmberger et al.; 9. Toward mass-customized information systems N. Makrygiannis; 10. Component-based systems: the basis of future manufacturing systems J. Edwards et al.; 11. Designing and documenting ComponentWare with message sequence charts R. Nahm; 12. Component model for managed objects in large-scale distributed systems R. H. High, Jr; 13. What is a pattern? F. Buschmann and P. Sommerlad; 14. Why objects are not enough C. Pfister and C. Szyperski; 15. Oberon/F: a cross-platform component-oriented framework C. Pfister and C. Szyperski; 16. Let's brew some Java J. De Jesus; 17. Specification and implementation of CORBA services: a case study - extended abstract B. Hollunder; 18. GINA: an object-oriented run-time and development solution for distributed object computing.