European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is an annual conference covering topics on object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications. Like other conferences, ECOOP offers various tracks and many simultaneous sessions, and thus has different meaning to different people.

European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Abbreviation	ECOOP
Discipline	Object-oriented programming
Publication details
Publisher	Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Science+Business Media
History	1987-present
Frequency	Annual

The first ECOOP was held in Paris, France in 1987. It operates under the auspices of the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets, a non-profit organization located in Germany.

ECOOP’s venue changes every year, and the categories of its program vary. Historically ECOOP has combined the presentation of academic papers with comparatively practical experience reports, panels, workshops and tutorials.

ECOOP helped object-oriented programming develop in Europe into what is now mainstream programming, and helped incubate a number of related disciplines, including design patterns, refactoring, aspect-oriented programming, and agile software development.

The winners of the annual AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize are offered the opportunity to give a keynote presentation at ECOOP.

The sister conference of ECOOP in North America is OOPSLA.

See also

• List of computer science conferences
• List of computer science conference acronyms
• Outline of computer science