Volume XXI Number 3 Sept 2001

Table of Contents

Call for Participation - SIGAda 2001

Call for Participation - Symposium on Reliable Object-Oriented Programming

Call for Papers - Ada Europe 2001

Message from the Chair - Currie Colket............................................................................................................................................... 1

SPECIAL ISSUE - Exception Handling for a 21^st Century Programming Language Proceedings

Table of Contents..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Preface........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4

Workshop Overview................................................................................................................................................................................ 6

Part I: Session Summaries

• Exception Propagation, Chair: William Bail, Rapporteur: Bo I. Sanden...................................................................................... 8
• Object Orientation and Exception Handling for Ada, Chair: Thomas Wolf, Rapporteur: Tullio Vardanega...................... 11
• Exceptions and Concurrency, Chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Rapporteur: Jorg Kienzle..................................................... 13
• How to Evolve Exception Handling in Ada, Chair: Alan Burns, Rapporteur: Alexander Romanovsky.............................. 16

Part II: Articles

• Romanovsky, B. Sanden: Except for Exception Handling.......................................................................................................... 19
• T. Vardanego: A Case for Exceptions............................................................................................................................................ 26
• T. Taft: Enhancing Exception Support in Ada 95........................................................................................................................ 31
• P. Leroy: Exceptions as Types........................................................................................................................................................ 33
• T. Wolf: On Exceptions as First-Class Objects in Ada 95.......................................................................................................... 35
• Strohmeier, S. Chachkov: A Side-be-Side Comparison of Exception Handling in Ada and Java........................................ 41
• J. Kienzle, A. Romanovsky: Implementing Exceptions in Open Multithreaded Transactions.............................................. 57
• M. Patino-Martinez, et al: Implementing Transactions using Exceptions: Which Features are Missing?......................... 64
• J.F. Ruiz, J.A. de la Puente, J. Zamorano, R. Fernandez-Marina: Exception Support for the Ravenscar Profile................. 76
• S.E. Mitchell, A. Burns, A.J. Wellings: MOPping up Exceptions............................................................................................. 80

A Quarterly Publication of SIGAda,

the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada