SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Object Orientation

Conferences:

• OOPSLA (ACM's Conference on OO Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (SIGPLAN))

General Subject:

• Books:
  • "Object-Oriented Software Construnction, 2nd ed", by Bertrand Meyer (the Eiffel guy)
    A great book on OO SW design and intro to Eiffel.
• Object-Oriented Information Sources (canonical site)
• Object FAQ   Absolutely HUGE site of OO (and some other) resources. Esp. see FTP appendix.
• Introduction to the Booch Method (online course?)
• Humans and Technology (site by Alistair Cockburn on OO, other tech.)
• Object-Oriented Programming (many online books/papers)
• OMG (Open Modeling Group) Home Page
• OOSHP: Object-Oriented Shell Programing [link broke; search web]
• The OO Soapbox (newsletter for OO)
• Papers & Presentations on Object-Oriented Software Development
• Patterns:
  • Patterns home page
  • Papers on "Design Patterns"   At uiuc.edu.
• Software Composition Group (an OO SW Dev resource)

Documenting; Diagramming; UML:

• Also see Diagramming.
• Consdiag.py  "utility for documenting OO programs done with C++/java/python.... It draws Rumbaugh boxes. It generates latex code."
• UML - Universal Modeling Language:
  • Dia "A Gtk+-based diagram creation program" (supports UML)
  • Cool:Jex design tool  Supports UML. Was ObjectTeam.
  • Object Domain Systems, Inc.  $ & demo; UML-based OO CASE software.
  • OMG (Open Modeling Group) Home Page (strong proponent of UML)
  • Rational Software Corp's UML page

Specific products:

• Objex (Ox) (object model for Linux; an in-work specification and sample implementation)
• Portable Object Compiler
• SNiff+ ($;"Source Code Engineering tool" by Take Five Software; C,C++,FORTRAN,Jave,IDL; on RH51 app disk)
• WebObjects (neat commercial SW); search at Apple

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