Engineering Distributed Objects : Second International Workshop EDO 2000 Davis CA USA November 2–3 2000 Revised Papers This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Distributed Objects EDO 2000 held in November 2000 in Davis California USA.The 15 revised full papers presented together with session surveys were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The book presents topical sections on middleware selection resource management architectural reasoning distributed communication advanced transactions and service integration