DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRIBUTED AND CLIENT-SERVER OBJECT-ORIENTED APPLICATIONS - INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS

The panel will discuss emerging ''industrial'' solutions that help pro grammers to develop distributed and client/server applications based o n objects supporting so-called openess and heterogeneity. The goal of the panel is to help answer the question whether there can be one sing le solution or whether various (integrated) approaches are needed. The panel will also compare industrial solutions such as COM, DSOM, COBRA and OODCE with results that came out of academia. Finally, a set of q uestions will be answered by each panelist according to the approach h e will propose.