Nicolas Guelfi & Gianna Reggio 
Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications [PDF ebook] 
4th International Workshop, FIDJI 2004, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg, November 24-25, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

FIDJI 2004 was an international forum for researchers and practitioners int- estedinthe advancesin, andapplicationsof, softwareengineeringfordistributed application development. Concerning the technologies, the workshop focused on "Java-related" technologies. It was an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. Allpaperssubmittedtothisworkshopwerereviewedbyatleasttwomembers of the International Program Committee. Acceptance was based primarily on originality and contribution. We selected, for these post-workshop proceedings, 11 papers amongst 22 submitted, a tutorial and two keynotes. FIDJI2004aimedatpromotingascienti?capproachtosoftwareengineering. The scope of the workshop included the following topics: — design of distributed applications — development methodologies for software and system engineering — UML-based development methodologies — development of reliable and secure distributed systems — component-based development methodologies — dependability support during system life cycle — fault tolerance re?nement, evolution and decomposition — atomicity and exception handling in system development — software architectures, frameworks and design patterns for developing d- tributed systems — integration of formal techniques in the development process — formal analysis and grounding of modelling notation and techniques (e. g. , UML, metamodelling) — supporting the security and dependability requirements of distributed app- cations in the development process — distributed software inspection — refactoring methods — industrial and academic case studies — development and analysis tools The organization of such a workshop represents an important amount of work.