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A Programming Language for Communicating Distributed Objects - Fascinating proposal for a very compact folding CDO language: Seentacks? We don't need no stinkin' Seentacks!

An introduction to Design by Contract - The notion of Design by Contract is central in the systematic approach to object-oriented software construction

Anvil - A dynamically compiled

Athene - Next generation

Avail - Multiply-polymorphic modular language with highy flexible syntax. Unique inheritance model allows multiple inheritance

AWI TechNet - Object-Oriented Programming Overview - A brief description of Object-Oriented programming and its advantages.

Binding Properties of Objects - Article about "binding" together properties of several objects to hold the same value. It uses signals.

bx - Language with objects

Cetus Links / OOAD Methods - Collection of links on OOAD methods

Cetus Links / OOAD Tools - Collection of links on OOAD tools

Cetus Links: Languages - Over 11

DBMS: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design - A June 1996 article by Michael Gora comparing several major methodologies.

Dynace - An object-oriented extension to the C language which solves many of the problems associated with C++.

Elaya - Homepage for the open source Elaya compiler project.

Heron - The official web site for the Heron programming language. Contains the specification

Heron-Centric - A blog on news and developments regarding the Heron programming language.

Heron-Centric: Ruminations of a Language Designer - A blog which covers language design issues and software development techniques regarding the Heron programming language as well as similar languages like Java and C++.

Iguana Project - Investigating use of object-orientation

Informix Corporation - Designs

itmWEB: Object Oriented Resources - Extensive collection of the top resources for object oriented analysis

JellyJ - Project creating a object oriented programming language which is easy to learn for the beginner.

Kapsel - Experimental object-oriented programming language; looks and feels much like the original Smalltalk

Lava - An experimental

Lingo - Programming language with automatic memory management

Lush: Lisp Universal SHell - An object-oriented programming language designed for researchers

merd - Ruby-like expressivity + static type checks

merd: SourceForge - Practical futuristic language: Ruby-like expressiveness with Haskell-like static type checks. Coded in ML

Methodology.org - A site providing systems

Nice - OO language based on

Noobeed - An interactive geomatic object oriented language for spatial modeling

Nosica - A new object-oriented language. Development website

O'small - Concise

Object Data Management Group (ODMG) - Industry association for a common OO data standard. Extracts of ODMG 3.0 as well as some explaining articles are online. Note: Standard is partially superceded by JDO.

Object Oriented FAQ: Object FAQ - Comp.Object FAQ (Object FAQ) is the most comprehensive resource on object technology anywhere.

Object Oriented Programming in C - Paul Field's fine

Object Oriented Programming: A guide for the beginner - from Modula-2 to Java

Object Technology - General introduction; documenting; suppliers

Object-Oriented Database Management Systems - A collection of links

Object-Oriented Databases versus Object-Relational Databases - Gives a rough definition of relational

Object-Oriented Operating Systems - Short

Object-Process Methodology (OPM) - A modeling methodology that supports generic systems development using a single graphic model with objects

Objects on the Web: Designing - Building

ODBMS Articles and Products - Articles on object-oriented database systems architecture and technology

OO Language Page - Includes links to information on OOPLs

OOAD - Processes and Patterns

OOP 2005 Conference - (January 2005) presents object-based solutions in an expansive and fully comprehensive forum for users

Open Spice - An openly available specification of programming language with some nice XML processing features. Imlementations.

Planet Source Code - Lets OOP programmers submit code for review by other programmers; many source code samples to help educate beginners on many concepts; contests where programmers vote for the most efficient

Punit Pandey's Weblog on Portlets - OOA/D and J2EE

PURE - Portable

Renaissance - Multiprocessor OO OS purely designed and implemented in object-oriented techniques

ShagOS - Portable object-oriented microkernel OS

SOS: SOMIW Object-Oriented Operating System - Most interesting research results: simple

Storing Objects in a Database - Usenet articles on how one can make objects persistent without the code becoming dependent on a specific database technology.

Superx++ - Compiled object-oriented language fully based on XML syntax; conforms to XML version 1.0 specification as published by W3C. Descriptions

Survey of Object Oriented Programming Languages - Article by Chris Hostetter. This paper was intended as a learning experience for the author

The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto - Defines the main features and characteristics that a system must have to qualify as an object-oriented database.

The Object-Oriented Page - Large

Together Community - Object modeling news

Ultima-S: Problems and Decisions - Advantages of a client-server O(R)DBMS versus a mainframe database are shown.

UnrealScript Language Reference - High level

VIRT Laboratory - Makes VIRT: general purpose

Vortex - Language-independent optimizing compiler infrastructure for OO and other high-level languages

Webopedia: Object-oriented programming - Defines the term 'object-oriented programming'

WebReference.com: Class-Based vs. Prototype-Based Languages - Brief explanation by Yehuda Shiran

What is Object-Oriented Software: An Introduction - Simple explanations for object newbies.

Whatever Happened to Object-Oriented Databases? - Comparison of state and future prospect of object-oriented and relational databases. [PDF file with IEEE Computer version available from same site.]