Case Studies

• Presentation Software illustrates how a presentation program like Microsoft PowerPoint or Aldus Persuasion might be replaced by a relatively simple OpenDoc container. The example OpenDoc part is a rough prototype developed in a three-day ODF kitchen last fall.
  
  
• Decision Support shows how an enterprise solution might be developed for the common problem of accessing the company database. This might be used in a corporate setting for sales-force automation, or for creating a simple management information system. This example makes use of an OpenDoc container and various parts that support linking.
  
  
• Test Framework shows how the ODF team assembled a suite of plug-in parts to aid in the automated testing of the libraries and frameworks that are part of OpenDoc and ODF itself. The Nautilus system, as it's known, is based on parts that support a custom OpenDoc extension.
  
  
• Simulation shows how a simple physics simulation for education can be assembled from suites of OpenDoc parts. Each of the parts is required to support a special set of OpenDoc extensions. The code from writing the extensions is supported by a special SOM library.
  
  
• Web Browser analyses how the functionality of a browser like Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer can be replaced by the Cyberdog suite of OpenDoc parts. Cyberdog parts are based on a custom extension, and are generally used within various containers.

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