Editorial

Dear Readers,

The workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP) and the International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO) were the two most popular workshops at ECOOP 2008 (European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming) in Paphos, Cyprus, July 2008. But there was even more to celebrate: FTfJP was held for the tenth consecutive year, and the IWACO crowd was able to look back at ten years of ownership type systems. The participants celebrated this occasion with a joint workshop dinner.

Since FTfJP and IWACO serve similar communities, we decided to edit a joint special issue for selected contributions from both workshops. IWACO and FTfJP~2008 attracted a total of 28 submissions, out of which 18 were selected for presentation at the workshop. We invited the authors of 8 papers to submit an extended version for this JOT special issue. We received 4 submissions and were able to accept all of these after thorough peer reviewing.

We would like to thank everyone involved in this special issue, especially the authors and the reviewers.