The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, commonly known as 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. It is more academic than some conferences, with doctoral students presenting papers for credit, and less academic than others.
The first ECOOP was held in Paris, France in 1986. It operates under the auspices of the Association Internationale pour les Technologies à Objets (AITO), 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, Model Driven Engineering, and agile software development.
The winners of the AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize are announced at ECOOP.
The sister conference of ECOOP in North America is OOPSLA.
Locations and Organizers
| Conference | Place | Conference Chairs | Program Chair | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECOOP 2010 |  Maribor, Slovenia
|
Marjan Heričko, Aleš Živkovič | Theo D'Hondt | |
| ECOOP 2009 |  Genoa, Italy
|
Giovanna Guerrini, Elena Zucca | Sophia Drossopoulou | |
| ECOOP 2008 |  Paphos, Cyprus
|
George Papadopoulos | Jan Vitek | |
| ECOOP 2007 |  Berlin, Germany
|
Stefan Jähnichen, Peter Fritzson | Erik Ernst | |
| ECOOP 2006 |  Nantes, France
|
Jean Bézivin, Pierre Cointe | Dave Thomas | |
| ECOOP 2005 |  Glasgow, United Kingdom
|
Paddy Nixon | Andrew Black | |
| ECOOP 2004 |  Oslo, Norway
|
Birger Møller-Pedersen | Martin Odersky | |
| ECOOP 2003 | Darmstadt, Germany
|
Rachid Guerraoui | Luca Cardelli | |
| ECOOP 2002 |  Malaga, Spain
|
José Troya | Boris Magnusson | |
| ... |
Others:
- 2001: Budapest, Hungary
- Gerti Kappel, Conference Chair
- Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, Program Chair
- 2000: Cannes, France
- Dennis Caromel, Jean-Paul Rigault, Organizing Chairs
- Elisa Bertino, Program Chair
- 1999: Lisbon, Portugal
- Vasco T. Vasconcelos, Organizing Chair
- Rachid Guerraoui, Program Chair
- 1998: Brussels, Belgium
- Luc Steels, Conference Chair
- Eric Jul, Program Chair
- 1997: Jyväskylä, Finland
- Boris Magnusson, Conference Chair
- Mehmet Aksit, Satoshi Matsuoka, Program Chairs
- 1996: Linz, Austria
- Oscar Nierstrasz, Conference Chair
- Pierre Cointe, Program Chair
- 1995: Aarhus, Denmark
- Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Conference Chair
- Walter Olthoff, Program Chair
- 1994: Bologna, Italy
- Maurelio Boari, Conference Chair
- Mario Tokoro, Remo Pareschi, Program Chairs
- 1993: Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Gerhard Barth, Conference Chair
- Oscar Nierstrasz, Program Chair
- 1992: Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Pierre America, Conference Chair
- Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Program Chair
- 1991: Geneva, Switzerland
- Dennis Tsichritzis, Conference Chairs
- Pierre America, Program Chair
- 1990: Ottawa, Canada (joint, with OOPSLA)
- Dave Thomas, Pierre Cointe, Conference Chairs
- Akinori Yonezawa, Program Chair
- 1989: Nottingham, United Kingdom
- John Florentin, Conference Chair
- Stephen Cook, Program Chair
- 1988: Oslo, Norway
- Stein Gjessing, Conference Chair
- Kristen Nygaard, Program Chair
- 1987: Paris, France
- Jean-Marie Hullot, Jean Bézivin , Conference Chairs
- Pierre Cointe, Henry Lieberman, Program Chairs