Ada-Belgium'97 - "Developing Distributed Applications" - 1997/11/28

Ada-Belgium'97 - "Developing Distributed Applications" - 1997/11/28

[Dirk Craeynest]

Ada-Belgium is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the
use in Belgium of Ada, the first and only internationally standardized
object-oriented programming language.

The following announcement was just posted to the Ada-Belgium mailing
lists.  Feel free to forward to anyone who might be interested.

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium

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                   Preliminary Call for Participation

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

                   Developing Distributed Applications

                        Friday, November 28, 1997
                        Trasys, Brussels, Belgium

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

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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
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  * 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.

13:15 - 14:15   Lunch
14:15 - 14:45   Coffee break

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

More information will be available shortly.  Check the URL mentioned
above for updates.  The full Call for Participation will be posted soon.

Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels.

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

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

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                            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 Universite' Libre
                          de Bruxelles (U.L.B.)

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  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

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