Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications

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.