by Ashish B. Shah
Some of the efforts underway to enable interoperability between the WWW and distributed object systems are based on the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standards. Others include the Distributed Component Object Model that was recently announced by Microsoft, and a set of new APIs announced by JavaSoft for building distributed object-based applications in Java.
Compound documents can support many different data types and provide a uniform interface to each type. The Object Management Group has adopted the OpenDoc specification as a compound document standard. Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) which is based on the Component Object Model (COM) is also a competing compound document standard. Sun has recently announced the Java Beans API which promises to provide an platform independent component model for building distributed object systems on the WWW.
In this chapter we attempt to provide an introduction to the aforementioned technologies for integrating distributed objects technology with the WWW and try to compare and contrast them. We also provide a short introduction to currently evolving technologies such as ActiveX and Arabica.
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Ashish B. Shah
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