From: dederer@sda.com (Ann Dederer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: AN INTRODUCTION TO ECMA PCTE TUTORIAL
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:20:32 GMT

AN INTRODUCTION TO ECMA PCTE
A Tutorial on PCTE Technology and Strategy

Offered by Software Design & Analysis, Inc.

28-29 September 1992 - Sheraton Boston, Boston, MA and
7-8 December 1992 - McLean Hilton, Tyson's Corner, VA

OVERVIEW

The costs of building industrial strength software development
environments and tools can be prohibitive. A set of common services
is needed to facilitate the rapid construction and integration
of software tools and environments. The PCTE (Portable Common Tool
Environment) interface defines such a set of common services. The
services have been defined to be scalable, language independent,
evolvable, and implementable on local area networks.

The European Computer Manufacturers Association accepted a version
of the PCTE interface definition in December, 1990 as ECMA Standard
149. This version is being presented for international standard-
ization. The PCTE interface is gaining widespread acceptance within
the platform, CASE tool and software development environment com-
munities, and several organizations have produced preliminary im-
plementations.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This two-day program is designed to provide software project man-
agers, software engineers, software tool and environment builders,
and software technology decision makers insight into the applica-
bility of PCTE for creating supportive software environments.

OUTLINE

I.	The History and Strategic Nature of the PCTE Initiative
	
	Discussion of: the major activities that have influenced
	the PCTE initiative from 1983 to the present; the significance
	of PCTE from technology, industry and market perspectives;
	and the current PCTE-related positions of major tool and
	platform vendors.

II.	Discussion of the basic mechanisms that underlie PCTE,
	including:
	
	-	Object Management System: data repository services.
	-	Schema Management: schema definition and modification
		services.
	-	Execution Management: process execution management services
	-	Inter-Process Communication: process-process communication
		and data exchange services.
	-	Concurrency Control and Integrity: multiuser and multi-
		process coordination and transaction services.
	-	Notification: data access notification services.
	-	Security: discretionary and mandatory access control
		services.
	-	Accounting: system resource utilization monitoring 
		services.
	-	Distribution: data and process distribution services and
		system configuration services.

III.	Exploiting PCTE

	Discussion of issues important to exploiting PCTE, including
	tool architectures, schema development, and tool migration
	strategies.

IV.	Question and Answer Period

	Open question and answer period among lecturers and attendees.

REGISTRATION

Registration is limited to provide a high quality education experience.
Registration information and forms follow.

SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE....

Ian Thomas works on environment framework and integration projects
at Software Design & Analysis, Inc. His previous work at Hewlett-
Packard's Software Engineering Systems Division and Bull's Corp-
orate Research Center involved a number of projects that built in-
tegrated tool sets on the PCTE interfaces. His current technical
activities emphasize environment frameworks, environment integra-
tion technology, software process support, and software engineering
database issues.

Christian Bremeau also works on environment framework and integra-
tion projects at Software Design and Analysis, Inc. During his pre-
vious work at GIE Emeraude, he was a member of the PCTE+ design team
and one of the architects of the Emeraude implementation of PCTE+.
More recently, he has been guiding the Ada bindings for PCTE
through the ECMA standardization process. His technical activities
involve environment framework design and the use of framework
technology in the construction of environments.

Brian Nejmeh is an independent software consultant, specializing
in software development environments and process improvement.
He has been involved in environment and tool integration projects
for the past seven years at organizations including AT&T and 
Software Productivity Consortium. He is currently leading a number
of PCTE-based projects exploring the appropriate use of PCTE as an
environment construction and integration technology.

TRAVEL AND LODGING

The tutorial on 28-29 September 1992 will be held at:

	Sheraton Boston
	39 Dalton Street
	Boston, MA 02199
	(617) 236-2000

The tutorial on 7-8 December 1992 will be held at:

	McLean Hilton at Tyson's Corner
	7920 Jones Branch Drive
	McLean, Virginia 22102
	(703) 761-5111

Special room rates are available for participants. Please contact
the hotels directly for room reservation and reference RSDA/PCTE
SeminarS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

	Mark Kissman, SDA Inc.
	+1 (303) 444-9100 (voice)
	+1 (303) 938-5005 (fax)
	email: kissman@sda.com

REGISTRATION FORM

_____ Boston, 28-29 September 1992
_____ Tyson's Corner, 7-8 December 1992

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FEES

Advance Registration		$850.00
Registration after 25 October	$950.00
Per person fee for two or
	more people from the same
	organization		$800.00

AMOUNT ENCLOSED			$_______

Registrations not accompanied by payment will hold space in the
program for two weeks. Payment must be received by the end of this
two-week period to guarantee space at the tutorial.

Sorry, but credit card charges, foreign currency checks and PO's
cannot be accepted.

CANCELLATION POLICY

Cancellations received two weeks prior to the tutorial will
receive a full refund minus a $50.00 administrative fee.

Cancellations will not be accepted after two weeks prior to the
tutorial. Personnel from the same company may, however, be
substituted.

SEND COMPLETED FORM AND PAYMENT TO:

PCTE Tutorial
Software Design & Analysis Inc.
1113 Spruce Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA
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