Dear Readers,
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Bertrand
Meyer
Guest editor
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The TOOLS USA 2003 conference was number
44 in the series and, like its predecessors, attracted
a high number of quality submissions. Due to unfortunate
circumstances the conference could not be held in the
traditional form, but the present special issue of JOT
brings to the object-oriented and component-based public
the best papers submitted to the conference, made available
here in journal form after revision.
The papers emphasize some of the most important
themes of the moment: component-based development, methodology,
applications, with a special batch of contributions on
new ideas in Design by Contract and the Eiffel approach.
We are grateful to the authors for
submitting these contributions and waiting patiently
for final publication, and for Michael Stal for directing
the paper review process. The TOOLS conference series
will resume in 2005 and we hope to see many more submissions
of such interesting contributions.
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