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1.0 Chapter 1. What Is OpenDoc?

   OpenDoc is the vendor-neutral industry standard for component software 
   interoperability.  It enables the construction of compound collaborative 
   documents and customer solutions.  This book provides a detailed overview 
   of the OpenDoc technology as implemented in OS/2 Warp Version 3. 

   The study of OpenDoc, which provides a new way of working with documents, 
   begins with a description of how an OpenDoc document is used.  Familiar 
   documents of today and yesterday are compared to the new OpenDoc documents 
   format.  The similarities and differences between these document types are 
   contrasted.  The limitations of a conventional document and the benefits 
   of OpenDoc for both applications users and developers are discussed. 

   The terminology and structure of OpenDoc are reviewed along with a 
   discussion of the architecture and services of the OS/2 Warp Version 3 
   implementation. 

   To take advantage of the features provided by OpenDoc requires the 
   installation of the General Available code from the The Developer 
   Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition.  To assist in a quick and 
   easy installation of OpenDoc on your personal computer, a step-by-step 
   discussion of an installation of OpenDoc on an OS/2 Warp Version 3 system 
   is described. 

   To complete the study of OpenDoc, several scenarios describing how to 
   construct OpenDoc documents are presented. 

Subtopics:

   1.1 A New Way of Working
   1.2 The Conventional Way of Working
   1.3 The New Way of Working with OpenDoc
   1.4 Building Tomorrow's Solutions Today
   1.5 The OpenDoc Community

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