SSCLI 2003 Conference Day 1 Report
The rotor conference agenda turns out to be very
different from the one on the web.
Today (day 1) there were 4 main presentations
- Coco/R -Johannes Kepler. Coco/R is
a collection of compiler generation
tools (similar to lex/yacc for as old folks)
Johannes presented what was needed
to make system target C#, and what
was needed to express C# in atg, the
input format of Coco/R. The reduction in states from BNF to EBNF and ATG is impressive.
- Frank Piessens Talked about how
sscli was used in teaching a
secure code course. He gave details about
projects that used type information
as evidence for secure concurrent
programming and a project that dealt
with adding role based security
to code access security
- Erik Rissanen - SICS. showed a
project which extended code
security with server based
access control
-
Antonio Cisterno - Pisa - described CodeBricks
his meta programming tools for
dynamic code generation.
These talks were followed by a 'short
talks' session of which
Nigel Perry's
was certainly the highlight. He described
Just in Time
Objects, which deals with lazy
instantiation of objects. Something
which can be extremely interesting
in the context of very large
applications.
In this session Andreas Polze talked about
object and process migration.
I am not a believer in generic migration of objects and processes
so I am always very skeptical about this type of work.
Posted by Werner Vogels at September 18, 2003 11:22 PM
