Ada-Belgium'97 - Developing Distributed Applications - Preliminary Call for Participation

Preliminary Call for Participation

7th Annual Ada-Belgium Seminar (Ada-Belgium'97)

Developing Distributed Applications

Friday, November 28, 1997
Trasys, Brussels, Belgium

Organized with Assistance from
ACM SIGAda, AJPO, CCI, the European Commission - DG XII

We are pleased to announce that Ada-Belgium will hold its 7th Annual Seminar at the premises of Trasys in Brussels, on Friday, November 28, 1997.

Highlights

Theme of Ada-Belgium'97 is "Developing Distributed Applications". The seminar features tutorial, technical and project presentations, plus short product presentations.
Several approaches to develop distributed applications will be presented (CORBA, DCE, Ada Distributed Systems Annex, etc.) as well as practical experiences and available products, with special emphasis on the role of Ada 95.
Free Ada-related material will be distributed, e.g. free copies of the new Walnut Creek double CD-ROM: the November 1997 release is a special edition for Tri-Ada'97 and Ada-Belgium'97.

Programme (tentative schedule)

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08:30 - 09:30   Registration

09:30 - 09:35   Welcome (Ada-Belgium)

09:35 - 10:00   "From Heritage Systems to the ITDialTone"
    [0h25]      (on CORBA-DCE-etc. interoperability)
                by Marc Laureys, The Open Group (formerly OSF & X/Open),
                   Belgium

10:00 - 11:15   Tutorial - Part 1:
    [1h15]      "CORBA and Ada 95 for High Performance Distributed
                 Software Components"
                by Bill Beckwith, Objective Interface Systems, U.S.A.

11:15 - 11:45   Coffee break

11:45 - 13:00   Tutorial - Part 2:
    [1h15]      "CORBA and Ada 95 for High Performance Distributed
                 Software Components"
                by Bill Beckwith, Objective Interface Systems, U.S.A.

13:00 - 13:15   Vendor Presentation:
    [0h15]      "Building Fast, Predictable Systems with Objective
                 Interface's ORBexpress for Ada 95 CORBA Object
                 Request Broker"
                by Bill Beckwith, Objective Interface Systems, U.S.A.
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13:15 - 14:15   Lunch
14:15 - 14:45   Coffee break

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14:45 - 15:45   "An overview of DCE"
    [1h00]      by Yolande Berbers, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

15:45 - 16:00   Vendor Presentation:
    [0h15]      "OrbAda, the Top Graph'X CORBA solution"
                by Bernard Maudry, Top Graph'X, France

16:00 - 16:30   Coffee break

16:30 - 17:00   Experience Report: "Building a Conceptual Object Model"
    [0h30]      by Kor Molenmaker, Maritime Research Institute
                   Netherlands (MARIN), the Netherlands

17:00 - 18:00   "Multi-Partition programming with GLADE: an overview"
    [1h00]      by Cyrille Comar, Ada Core Technologies (ACT) & ACT
                   Europe, France

18:00           End of the Seminar
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More information will be added here shortly.

Still available: the Call for Contributions

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium Board
ada@belgium.eu.net

PS: All presentations are in English. Everyone interested is welcome.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our activities: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole Royale Militaire (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS nv/sa, Rational Software Corporation, Trasys nv/sa, and Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

Special thanks to DG XII at the European Commission (Directorate-General XII: Science, Research and Development), ACM/SIGAda (ACM Special Interest Group on the Ada programming language) and AJPO - AdaIC (Ada Joint Program Office - Ada Information Clearinghouse) for their support of this event.

Information on this and other Ada-Belgium events is available on the Internet at the Ada-Belgium World-Wide-Web pages and is updated regularly. Check out URL

http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

To the Ada-Belgium home page. To the Ada-Belgium'97 Home Page.

Last update: 97/10/29.

Dirk Craeynest