Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint Modular Languages Conference, JMLC‘97, held in Linz, Austria, in March 1997..The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 55 submissions; also included are full papers of two invited presentations. The book is devoted to languages, techniques, and tools for the development of modular, extensible, and type-safe software systems. Among the programming languages covered are Modula, Oberon, Ada95, Eiffel, Salher, Java, and others. The issues addressed include compiler technology, persistence, data
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