European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP) will feature an Eclipse Technology eXchange Workshop to explore recent applications of the Eclipse platform in industry, research and education.

The Eclipse Foundation claims the workshop will create opportunities for participants to become familiar with each other's work and create a challenging environment for open exchange among participants. The workshop is said to be inspired by the LAWST (Los Altos Workshop on Software Testing) format, focusing on live discussion and collaboratively generating conclusions, recommendations, and ideas rather than publication quality proceedings. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Software Engineering education and research
• Using Eclipse in teaching object-oriented programming
• Courseware applications using the Rich Client Platform (RCP)
• Design requirements/specification tools
• Modeling environments and frameworks
• IDEs supporting the software development process
• Testing and debugging
• Program analysis and transformation (refactoring, optimization, obfuscation, reverse
• ngineering, etc.)
• Aspect Oriented Programming
• Rich Client Applications
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications