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This report explains the motivation for a workshop on formal techniques for Java programs. It gives an overview of the presentations and summarizes the results of the working groups. Furthermore, it contains abstracts of the contributed papers.
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Jacobs, B., Leavens, G.T., Müller, P., Poetzsch-Heffter, A. (1999). Formal Techniques for Java Programs. In: Moreira, A. (eds) Object-Oriented Technology ECOOP’99 Workshop Reader. ECOOP 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1743. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46589-8_6
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