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2.9 OpenDoc Tools for Creating Components

   To make OpenDoc a success, there must be tools to create or generate code 
   for components.  At the moment these tools are in development with Apple 
   (OpenDoc Framework) and IBM.  With OpenDoc on The Developer Connection for 
   OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition, an early version of a tool is delivered, 
   Partmeister.  Newer versions of this tool can be downloaded from the 
   Internet: Club Opendoc at the following URL: 

     http://www.software.ibm.com/clubopendoc/ 

   Together with the Visual Age Open Class libraries for C++, there will be 
   another framework for components, the Compound Document Framework, 
   developed originally from Taligent.  PartMeister, OpenDoc Document 
   Framework and Compound Document Framework have different markets. 
   PartMeister is a quick start tool and teaching tool for object-oriented 
   techniques.  The OpenDoc Document Framework addresses the Macintosh 
   developers and is very close to the OpenDoc API (uses frames and facets to 
   expose), while the Compound Document Framework addresses OS/2 and Windows 
   developers that want to write portabel code or do OLE as well. 

Subtopics:

   2.9.1 Partmeister
   2.9.2 Compound Document Framework

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