Research Seminar - October 6, 2000

Abstract

For well over a decade now, commercial software development has been largely based on an Object Oriented (OO) paradigm. Market pressures to improve the quality of software and reduce time to market have led to widespread industry adoption of powerful OO tools and methodologies. These include the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools such as Rational Rose, convergence on the UML as standard design and analysis language, Design Patterns as a means of identifying OO best-practice in design, and more recently a shift towards component-based software development via CORBA, COM and EJB for rapid development of independent modules.

Powerful tools and methodologies for OO are useless however, without a strong grounding in the fundamentals of Object Orientation. In this seminar I will cover the most important of these concepts in some detail as well as touching on some advanced OO concepts and issues that arise in developing industrial strength OO solutions.

This seminar will attempt to highlight fundamental OO areas that are unknown or poorly understood by current university graduates. However, the seminar is NOT "OO for dummies", I expect that even the most experienced OO developer or educator will benefit from this talk.