Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions has a B.A. in Biology from Bard College and an M.E.S. in Database Systems from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of two books, Reusable Data Structures for C, and Class Construction in C and C++, and several articles. He worked on Object-Oriented programming environments and worked with high performance relational databases and Object-Oriented storage systems.

Contact Information

• e-mail: mailto:roger@objectwatch.com
• Web Site: http://www.objectwatch.com/
• Blog: http://simplearchitectures.blogspot.com/

Republishing Permission

Rogger Sessions gave permission to release his EDM/2 articles under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Martin Iturbide received the permission on Jan 17 of 2012.

Articles

• The Year of the Net Wars (An analysis of the battle for control of the interface to the Internet) by R. Sessions, OS/2 Magazine, January 1997. (Also translated into Japanese.)
• littleDogs, Polymorphism, and Frameworks (A description of the relationship between polymorphism and object frameworks), by R. Sessions. OS/2 Magazine, Feb. 1996.
• Encapsulation, and the EPIC Nature of Dogs by R. Sessions. OS/2 Magazine, March 1996. A study of the characteristics of Exchangeable, Protection, Isolatable, and Confidential in object-oriented systems.
• Distributed Objects by R. Sessions. OS/2 Magazine, April 1996. Gives an introduction to distributed object programming.
• Metaclass, and the dogs of Shakespeare (An explanation of the basic principals of metaclass programming) by R. Sessions. OS/2 Magazine, May 1996.
• Your dog on Java (An introduction to the Java programming language) by R. Sessions. OS/2 Magazine, June 1996.
• My girl scouts are badder than your girl scouts (A discussions of a basic gaming framework designed to teach the principals of framework programming) by R. Sessions. OS/2 Magazine, July 1996.
• Lost in the Garden (An overview of the SOM 3.0 beta product) by R. Sessions. OS/2 Magazine, August, 1996.
• A kilometer is not a kilometer (Measuring performance in distributed object systems) by R. Sessions, OS/2 Magazine, September, 1996.
• Ten Rules for Distributed Object Systems by R. Sessions, OS/2 Magazine, October 1996.
• Dynamic Frameworks (A discussion of the role of dynamic class loading) by R. Sessions, OS/2 Magazine, December 1996.
• SOMobjects Developer Toolkit: Sharing SOM Objects with DSOM, by Erickson, C., N. Coskun, and R. Sessions. OS/2 Developer, Jan/Feb 1994
• SOMObjects Developer Toolkit: An Overview, by Sessions, R., N. Coskun, and C. Erickson. OS/2 Developer, Nov/Dec 1993
• Method Resolution in SOM, by Sessions, R., and N. Coskun. OS/2 Developer, Spring 1993
• SOM Enchanted Evening, by Sessions, R., and N. Coskun. Computer Language, April 1993
• SOM Overview, by Sessions, R. First Class Objects (OMG) Summer 1992
• Class Objects in SOM, by Coskun, N., and R. Sessions. OS/2 Developer, Summer 1992
• Object-Oriented Programming in OS/2. Using SOM, by Sessions, R., and N. Coskun. OS/2 Developer, Winter 1992

• The System Object Model (SOM): A Technology for Language Independent Objects - http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/som/somftn.zip

Publications

• R. Sessions: Reusable Data Structures for C - Prentice Hall 1989, ISBN 0-13-779034-1
• R. Sessions: Class Construction in C and C++: Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals - Prentice Hall 1992, ISBN 0-13-630104-5
• R. Sessions: Object Persistence: Beyond Object Oriented Databases - Prentice Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-192436-2
• R. Sessions: Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises - Microsoft Press 2008, ISBN 0-7356-2578-6