Type of Session:

Think-Tank

Subject Matter:

The combination of intranet, internet and object technology offers a promise of "write once, run anywhere" applications. But how do we get to that promise from the current state of "write here, crash there" applications?

Users of a collaborative development environment may leverage on this technology to call on remote experts to assist them in the development of applications - this session will discover what features such an environment requires.

Principal Objectives:

To build a vision of a collaborative development environment

Intended Audience:

Software Developers, i.e. real practitioners who bang out code

Level of Experience:

At least a couple of years of experience of coding in at least one Object Oriented programming language

Max Participants:

Structure of Session:

* Opening Intro
* Decide on issues to be addressed
* In groups, develop material for poster
* Review and agree materials
* Produce Poster

Deliverable:

Poster describing the vision

Session Leader:

Bernard Horan works for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he is engaged in a project to build a collaborative multi-user shared space. Bernard has been using object technology for over 10 years and is a frequent conference contributor. He is also the co-author of "Smalltalk: An Introduction to Application Development using VisualWorks".

Bernard Horan
Sun Microsystems Labs, Inc
901 San Antonio Rd, MS UMTV29-111
Palo Alto, CA 94043, USA
+1 650 336-2743
+1 650 969-7269 fax