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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 articles under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Martin Iturbide received the permission on Jan 17 of 2012.

Articles

OS/2 Magazine

Column: The World of Objects

littleDogs, Polymorphism, and Frameworks - A description of the relationship between polymorphism and object frameworks (Feb 1996)
Encapsulation, and the EPIC Nature of Dogs - A study of the characteristics of Exchangeable, Protection, Isolatable, and Confidential in object-oriented systems (Mar 1996)
Distributed Objects - Gives an introduction to distributed object programming (Apr 1996)
Metaclass, and the dogs of Shakespeare - An explanation of the basic principals of metaclass programming) (May 1996)
Your dog on Java - An introduction to the Java programming language (Jun 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) (Jul 1996)
Lost in the Garden - An overview of the SOM 3.0 beta product (Aug 1996)
A kilometer is not a kilometer - Measuring performance in distributed object systems (Sep 1996)
Ten Rules for Distributed Object Systems (Oct 1996)
Dynamic Frameworks - A discussion of the role of dynamic class loading (Dec 1996)
The Year of the Net Wars - An analysis of the battle for control of the interface to the Internet (Jan 1997) (Also translated into Japanese.)

OS/2 Developer

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
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, Apr 1993
SOMObjects Developer Toolkit: An Overview, by Sessions, R., N. Coskun, and C. Erickson. OS/2 Developer, Nov/Dec 1993
SOMobjects Developer Toolkit: Sharing SOM Objects with DSOM, by Erickson, C., N. Coskun, and R. Sessions. OS/2 Developer, Jan/Feb 1994

Misc

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

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 ;OS/2 Magazine
 Column: ''The World of Objects''
-* [[littleDogs, Polymorphism, and Frameworks]] (A description of the relationship between polymorphism and object frameworks), OS/2 Magazine, Feb 1996.
+* [[littleDogs, Polymorphism, and Frameworks]] - A description of the relationship between polymorphism and object frameworks (Feb 1996)
-* [[Encapsulation, and the EPIC Nature of Dogs]], OS/2 Magazine Mar 1996. A study of the characteristics of Exchangeable, Protection, Isolatable, and Confidential in object-oriented systems.
+* [[Encapsulation, and the EPIC Nature of Dogs]] - A study of the characteristics of Exchangeable, Protection, Isolatable, and Confidential in object-oriented systems (Mar 1996)
-* [[Distributed Objects]], OS/2 Magazine Apr 1996. Gives an introduction to distributed object programming.
+* [[Distributed Objects]] - Gives an introduction to distributed object programming (Apr 1996)
-* [[Metaclass, and the dogs of Shakespeare]] (An explanation of the basic principals of metaclass programming), OS/2 Magazine May 1996
+* [[Metaclass, and the dogs of Shakespeare]] - An explanation of the basic principals of metaclass programming) (May 1996)
-* [[Your dog on Java]] (An introduction to the Java programming language), OS/2 Magazine Jun 1996.
+* [[Your dog on Java]] - An introduction to the Java programming language (Jun 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), OS/2 Magazine Jul 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) (Jul 1996)
-* [[Lost in the Garden]] (An overview of the SOM 3.0 beta product), OS/2 Magazine Aug 1996
+* [[Lost in the Garden]] - An overview of the SOM 3.0 beta product (Aug 1996)
-* [[A kilometer is not a kilometer]] (Measuring performance in distributed object systems), OS/2 Magazine, September, 1996.
+* [[A kilometer is not a kilometer]] - Measuring performance in distributed object systems (Sep 1996)
-* [[Ten Rules for Distributed Object Systems]], OS/2 Magazine Oct 1996
+* [[Ten Rules for Distributed Object Systems]] (Oct 1996)
-* [[Dynamic Frameworks]] (A discussion of the role of dynamic class loading), OS/2 Magazine Dec 1996
+* [[Dynamic Frameworks]] - A discussion of the role of dynamic class loading (Dec 1996)
-* [[The Year of the Net Wars]] (An analysis of the battle for control of the interface to the Internet), OS/2 Magazine Jan 1997 (Also translated into Japanese.)
+* [[The Year of the Net Wars]] - An analysis of the battle for control of the interface to the Internet (Jan 1997) (Also translated into Japanese.)
 ;OS/2 Developer