EDO2000wasthesecondinternationalworkshoponsoftwareengineeringfor distributedobjectsystems. EDO2000wasacontinuationofEDO'99, the?rst workshopinthisseries, whichwasheldinconjunctionwithICSE'99. Distributedobjecttechnologies-asexempli?edbyCORBAandtheCORBA Services, COM+, EJB, andtheJ2EE-areincreasinglybeingadoptedbyvarious enterprisesasafundamentaltechnologyfortheirITinfrastructures. Asacon- quence, extensiveindustrypracticeofusingthetechnologiesisbeinggained. At thesametime, thetechnologiescontinuetoadvanceandnewfunctionalityand servicescontinuetobeintroduced. Inordertousetheexistingandemergingfunctionsofdistributedobjectte- nologiese?ectively, andtobettermeettoday'sdemandingbusinessandcomp- ingrequirements, advancesinsoftwareengineeringmethodsandtechniquesfor distributedobjectsarestronglyneeded. Softwareengineeringfordistributed- jectsistheresearchareathatprovidessolutionsofprovenpracticeforissuesand problemsthatareuniquetosystemsemployingdistributedobjecttechnologies. EDOis the premierworkshopthatbringstogetherthe researchandpractice communityofsoftwareengineeringfordistributedobjects. Wereceivedabout30submissionsandtheinternationalprogramcommittee selected15papers. Weclusteredacceptedpapersintosessionsandtheauthors ofthesepaperschampionedthesessionsandtookaleadinthediscussions. The workshoporganizersselectedparticularauthorstogivebriefpresentationsthat wereaimedtokicko?thediscussionineachsession. Theresultofthedi?erent sessionswassummarizedattheendoftheworkshopandthesesessionsummaries areincludedintheseproceedings. Alsointraditionwiththeworkshopseries, wehadaninvitedindustrialp- sentation. ThisyearWalterSchwarztalkedaboutanenterpriseapplication- tegrationprojectinthe?nancialdomainthatdeployedajudiciouscombination ofdistributedobjectmiddlewareandmarkuplanguagestoachieveintegration of?nancialtradingsystems. December2000 WolfgangEmmerichandStefanTai ProgramCo-chairs EDO2000 Program Committee Organization ConferenceChair: VolkerGruhn, UniversityofDortmund, Germany ProgramCo-chairs: WolfgangEmmerich, UniversityCollegeLondon, UK StefanTai, IBMWatsonResearch, U. S. A. OrganizingChair: PremDevanbu, UniversityofCalifornia, Davis, U. S. A. Referees JeanBezivin, UniversityofNantes, France GordonBlair, LancasterUniversity, UK AlfredBro]ckers, AdessoGmbH, Germany PeterCroll, UniversityofWollongong, Australia ElisabettaDiNitto, PolitecnicodiMilano, Italy AlfonsoFuggetta, PolitecnicodiMilano, Italy WilliHasselbring, UniversityofOldenburg, Germany JusukeHashimoto, NEC, Japan WalterHuersch, Zuehlke, Switzerland ArnoJacobson, INRIA, France MehdiJazayeri, TUVienna, Austria GertiKappel, UniversityofLinz, Austria WojtekKozacynski, Rational, USA BerndKr]amer, FUHagen, Germany Je?Magee, ImperialCollege, UK NenadMedvidovic, UniversityofSouthernCalifornia, USA NeilRoodyn, Cognitech, UK DavidRosenblum, UniversityofCaliforniaIrvine, USA IsabelleRouvellou, IBMWatsonResearch, USA WalterSchwarz, DGBank, Germany DirkSlama, ShinkaTechnologies, Germany DanielSteinmann, UBS, Switzerland AlfredStrohmeier, EPFL, Switzerland StanSutton, IBMWatsonResearch, USA Sponsoring Institutions AdessoGmbH, Germany IBMWatsonResearch, U. S. A. Z]uhlkeEngineeringGmbH, Germany Table of Contents Invited Industry Presentation ApplicationIntegrationwithCORBAandXML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 WalterSchwarz MiddlewareSelection MiddlewareSelection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 StanleyM. SuttonJr. AKeyTechnologyEvaluationCaseStudy: ApplyingaNewMiddlewareArchitectureontheEnte