Proceedings of the Workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages

Abstract

Welcome to the RAOOL'09 Workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages. The workshop is a direct successor of the RAOOL'08 workshop at OOPSLA'08 in Nashville and further relates more loosely to the Roles workshop at ECOOP'07 in Berlin. In this year's workshop an effort was made to gather the growing number of researchers in the object-oriented programming language community who are working on relationship-based and role-based systems to share their research and discuss the future of relationship-based and role-based constructs in programming languages. Input both from members of the programming language community and from members of related areas (e.g., databases, model-driven development) and domains (e.g., program analysis, orthogonal persistence, type systems) who are using relationships and roles is solicited. Some particular areas of interest are: •relationship-based programming languages •libraries/frameworks for relationship support •first-class queries •database integration and serialization •relationship-based system design •program understanding/visualization •ownership and related techniques •dynamic analysis of relationship usage The proceedings contain 6 papers (4 long papers and 2 position papers) that were selected by the program committee out of 9 submissions. Each paper was reviewed by 4 program committee members, with further input from a small number of external reviewers. The reviewing process was managed using the EasyChair Conference System.