Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, allowing agents to dynamically acquire operations to make specific tasks, and ...

A collaborative computing environment supports groups of people as they cooperate to achieve their goals. In this paper we investigate the issues on event broadcasting in Java collaborative computing environments. We address how these issues happen and ...

As the number of Internet users grows exponentially all over the world, Java has become one of the most favored computer languages for Web programming. Java application and Web developers are in high demand. Java courses are offered by almost every ...

This paper reports on our experience with a post-graduate curriculum in informatics for non specialists. This one-year master seeks to provide a sound and comprehensive education in computer science for graduate students from other scientific fields. We ...

All programmers should understand the concept of program families and know the techniques for constructing them. This paper describes a case study that can be used to introduce students in a Java software design course to the construction of program ...

In the development of object-oriented programming courses, an often overlooking but important area is testing. Generally, testing is formally introduced in software engineering courses and may not form part of the practical aspects of a programming ...

Software quality is an important external software attribute that is difficult to measure objectively. Several studies have identified a clear empirical relationship between static coupling metrics and software quality. However due to the nature of ...

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Las Vegas, Nevada for the 3rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java.Forty one papers were submitted and a total of twenty four (58%) have been selected for presentation and ...