Invited Industry Presentation -- Application Integration with CORBA and XML -- Middleware Selection -- Middleware Selection -- A Key Technology Evaluation Case Study: Applying a New Middleware Architecture on the Enterprise Scale -- An Architecture Proposal for Enterprise Message Brokers -- Resource Management -- Resource Management -- The Importance of Resource Management in Engineering Distributed Objects -- Towards Designing Distributed Systems with ConDIL -- Architectural Reasoning -- Architectural Reasoning -- Automatic Generation of Simulation Models for the Evaluation of Performance and Reliability of Architectures Specified in UML -- Architectural Reflection Realising Software Architectures via Reflective Activities -- Using Model Checking to Detect Deadlocks in Distributed Object Systems -- Component Metadata for Software Engineering Tasks -- On Using Static Analysis in Distributed System Testing -- Distributed Communication -- Distributed Communication -- Distributed Proxy: A Design Pattern for the Incremental Development of Distributed Applications -- Modeling with Filter Objects in Distributed Systems -- Advanced Transactions -- Advanced Transactions -- Integrating Notifications and Transactions: Concepts and X2TS Prototype -- Advanced Transactions in Enterprise JavaBeans -- Service Integration -- Service Integration -- Customizable Service Integration in Web-Enabled Environments -- Migrating and Specifying Services for Web Integration.