Component-Based Design of Embedded Software: An Analysis of Design Issues -- Component-Based Design of Embedded Software: An Analysis of Design Issues -- How Design Patterns Affect Application Performance – A Case of a Multi-tier J2EE Application -- An MDA-Based Approach for Inferring Concurrency in Distributed Systems -- Task-Based Access Control for Virtual Organizations -- Self-Deployment of Distributed Applications -- Modeling and Analysis of Exception Handling by Using UML Statecharts -- Coordinated Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Connections with MoCha -- A Survey of Software Development Approaches Addressing Dependability -- FreeSoDA: A Web Services-Based Tool to Support Documentation in Distributed Projects -- A JMM-Faithful Non-interference Calculus for Java -- A Java Package for Transparent Code Mobility -- Keynote Talks -- Dependability-Explicit Computing: Applications in e-Science and Virtual Organisations -- Towards a Precise UML-Based Development Method -- Tutorials -- Fault Tolerance – Concepts and Implementation Issues.

FIDJI 2004 was an international forum for researchers and practitioners int- estedinthe advancesin,andapplicationsof,softwareengineeringfordistributed application development. Concerning the technologies, the workshop focused on “Java-related” technologies. It was an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. Allpaperssubmittedtothisworkshopwerereviewedbyatleasttwomembers of the International Program Committee. Acceptance was based primarily on originality and contribution. We selected, for these post-workshop proceedings, 11 papers amongst 22 submitted, a tutorial and two keynotes. FIDJI2004aimedatpromotingascienti?capproachtosoftwareengineering. The scope of the workshop included the following topics: – design of distributed applications – development methodologies for software and system engineering – UML-based development methodologies – development of reliable and secure distributed systems – component-based development methodologies – dependability support during system life cycle – fault tolerance re?nement, evolution and decomposition – atomicity and exception handling in system development – software architectures, frameworks and design patterns for developing d- tributed systems – integration of formal techniques in the development process – formal analysis and grounding of modelling notation and techniques (e. g. , UML, metamodelling) – supporting the security and dependability requirements of distributed app- cations in the development process – distributed software inspection – refactoring methods – industrial and academic case studies – development and analysis tools The organization of such a workshop represents an important amount of work.