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A natural next step in the Object Web evolution will be reusable component based support for distributed objects and the associated BeanBoxes for authoring.
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This area is now actively explored by the software industry as a promising framework for the Intranet Enterprise Computing. Some prominent efforts include:
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Crossware by Netscape - which aims to integrate BeanConnect with the ORB support built into all Netscape products
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Enterprise JavaBeans - a new JavaSoft initiative towards server-side support for JavaBeans
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CORBA Beans - a pending position paper by IBM, Oracle, Netscape and Sunsoft, submitted to OMG and urging for RFPs in the area of CORBA support for Beans based componentware.
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An alternative to the emergent CORBA/Beans based distributed componentware is Microsoft DCOM which is a distributed version of OLE/ActiveX. DCOM is currently a few years behind CORBA and hence it will likely evolve by assimilating the CORBA/Beans concepts.
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