E-grāmata: Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications: 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.