School of Computer Science and Software Engineering             
              CSSE Seminar Series 2001

          * * * Seminar Announcement * * *

           " A Comparison of Component Models "

                  Tony Goodhew 
             Microsoft Corporation 

          Thursday 24th May 2001 at 10.15am                                                                   
          Caulfield Campus, Room K2.13 

Abstract:

Over the last decade, component models have been evolving to a point
where large systems can now be designed and constructed as a number of
components co-operating at runtime to provide flexible and powerful
systems. 

The most well known component models are COM, CORBA, Java and
.NET. This presentation will concentrate on one component model, namely
.NET, and highlight its functionality by comparing it with aspects of
Java.

About the speaker:

Although Tony Goodhew now works in Redmond, he is an Australian who
started his career with Microsoft in 1990. Since then he has worked for
Gupta, AT&T and IBM. Tony has been involved with .NET since the start of
its development, and in the last 3 years has been lead product manager
for C#. Tony initiated the ECMA standardisation efforts for the C#
language and the Common Language Infrastructure and is currently the
lead product manager responsible for Microsoft's Java strategy,
messaging and the JUMP to .NET toolset.