William Cook's Fusings

The second Dynamic Languages Symposium at OOPSLA 2006 was a great success. There were 193 registered participants. To put this into context,...

The panel on Objects and Databases: State of the Union in 2006 went pretty well. There was a lot of talk about who owns the data. The O/R cr...

Well, OOPSLA was amazing this year! But I'm biased, since I was program chair. I had fun meeting everybody who came from around the worl...

My paper with Janel Barfield on Web Services versus Distributed Objects: A Case Study of Performance and Interface Design was selected as t...

OOPSLA 2006 will be held October 22-26 in historic Portland, Oregon (USA). You can learn all about OOPSLA at www.oopsla.org , and/or downloa...

I told my brother that Second Life is going to replace the current web in 10 to 15 years. There are many potential problems on the way, but ...

I just returned from ECOOP. It was great to reconnect with so many researchers from around the world. I saw Walter Olthoff for the first tim...

It really bugs me when people say " technology-X was not adopted because 1) there is a conspiracy against it, or 2) corporations are t...

I recently got into a little argument with Michi Henning about his article Rise and fall of CORBA . This is too bad, because we mostly agree...

I posted to a thread on Javalobby: Language Wars Redux - the imminent approach of LINQ (see page 4). Most people just don't seem to und...

I am hosting a panel on Objects and Databases at OOPSLA in Portland this year, on Oct 24th. Here is the working abstract: Java and C# have ...

Here's a better way to see what is going on for kids at Explore UT 2006. You can also view the official schedule .

I just got back from the ECOOP program committe meeting in Paris. The meeting went well, but the highlight of the trip was that I accidental...

Dr. Dobb's February issue has the article on Native Queries, listed on the main page: Native Queries for Persistent Objects By William ...

I visited db4objects in December. We had a good discussion on object databases and native queries. Here are some photos.

I am sad to say that my Alma Mater major department, Computer Science at Tulane, is being eliminated. I wonder how they can lay off tenured ...

A very nice review of db4objects and Native Queries by Jeff Brown . This was also picked up by TheServerSide ... we'll see if there is ...

Native queries discussed on TheServerSide . There was also an earlier discussion in the context of JDO .

POJQ: Plain Old Java Queries project approved by java.net. This is an open source implementation of Safe/Native queries, launched by Wes Bi...

Object Database Management Systems portal announced, which features Native Query paper.