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October 1999 (Vol. 42, No. 10)

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Editorial pointers

Page 5
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News track

Robert Fox
Pages 9-10
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Forum

Pages 11-14
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From Washington: the ongoing tug-of-war for e-commerce control

Neil Munro
Pages 17-20
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Personal computing: the post-PC era

Larry Press
Pages 21-24
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From the president: the heroes among us

Barbara Simons
Pages 25-ff.
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UML in action

Grady Booch
Pages 26-28
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UML 2001: a standardization odyssey

As the UML reaches the ripe age of four, both its proponents and its critics are scanning the recent changes in the UML 1.3 revision.
Cris Kobryn
Pages 29-37
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Designing component-based frameworks using patterns in the UML

Grant Larsen
Pages 38-45
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Turning clockwise: using UML in the real-time domain

"You mustn't forget one thing," the fairy godmother said. "Do not stay past midnight, for when the hour strikes, everything will return to the way it was before. "I promise," said Cinderella.
Bran Selic
Pages 46-54
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UMLoquent expression of AWACS software design

The UML is becoming the standard palette used by software designers to paint their thoughts.
Alex E. Bell, Ryan W. Schmidt
Pages 55-61
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Modeling Web application architectures with UML

Modeling business logic in Web-specific components can be done in a coherent and consistent way.
Jim Conallen
Pages 63-70
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What Netscape learned from cross-platform software development

Its development strategy produced unexpected costs, a wrong turn with Java, performance compromises, and questions about future ties to Sun Microsystems.
Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie
Pages 72-78
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Framework integration problems, causes, solutions

Though familiar with the most common problems and their causes, OO software developers struggle with solutions plagued by a lack of framework standards and development guidelines.
Michael Mattsson, Jan Bosch, Mohamed E. Fayad
Pages 80-87
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Privacy interfaces for information management

A system for examining Web browsing histories helps create a set of guidelines for designing privacy interfaces.
Tessa Lau, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
Pages 88-94
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Multipurpose Web publishing using HTML, XML, and CSS

The World Wide Web Consortium devised these document-markup and style-sheet languages in the interests of Web device independence, content reuse, and network-friendly encoding.
Håkon Wium Lie, Janne Saarela
Pages 95-101
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Software engineering code of ethics is approved

The exhaustive efforts of the ACM and IEEE–CS has resulted in the adoption of a code of professional practices for software engineers to consider—and use.
Don Gotterbarn, Keith Miller, Simon Rogerson
Pages 102-107
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Technical opinion: comparing Java vs. C/C++ efficiency differences to interpersonal differences

Lutz Prechelt
Pages 109-112
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Inside risks: risks of relying on cryptography

Bruce Schneier
Page 144
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