This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP '96, held in Linz, Austria, in July 1996.
The 21 full papers included in revised version were selected from a total of 173 submissions, based on technical quality and originality criteria. The papers reflect the most advanced issues in the field of object-oriented programming and cover a wide range of current topics, including applications, programming languages, implementation, specification, distribution, databases, and design.

This volume contains the proceedings of the first European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, held in Paris, June 15-17, 1987. The idea of this annual conference series is to provide a forum for theorists and practitioners interested in the object-oriented programming paradigm. The contributions cover the following aspects of object-oriented programming: methodology, implementation, theory, interfaces, languages, simulation, inheritance.