'<h2 class=abstract> Session: Methods and tools </h2> <p class=papertitle> An information exploration tool for performance analysis of Java programs <p class=paperauthor> G. Sevitsky, R. De Pauw, R. Konuru -- IBM T.J. Watson Center, Hawthorne, NY <p class=papertitle> Analyzing the scalability of transactional CORBA applications <p class=paperauthor> P. Tran, I. Gorton -- Software Architectures and Component Technology (SACT) Group North Ryde, Australia <p class=papertitle> Integration of static and dynamic core for UML: A study in dynamic aspects of the pUML Object-Oriented meta modelling approach to the rearchitecting of UML <p class=paperauthor> A. Kleppe, J. Warmer -- Klasse Objecten, Netherlands '