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- Subject: Future of SOM and OpenDoc
- Sent: 9/13/96 2:02 PM
- Received: 9/13/96 2:02 PM
- From: "David W. Jarrett" <djarrett@sc.hp.com>
- Reply-To: ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List
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- I have already sent the following questions to the IBM OpenDoc mail
- address. Please let me know the best place to address these issues.
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- I have some architectural questions on OpenDoc and SOM, and their future.
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- First, I assume the SOM used in OpenDoc (for all platforms) is SOM 2.1,
- and that SOM 2.1 is CORBA 1.2 compliant. Also, SOM 3.0 will be CORBA 2.0
- compliant.
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- The question is when/if SOM 3.0 will be included in OpenDoc? This would
- allow access to OpenDoc parts transparently across platforms in a
- distributed fashion, via IIOP RPCs. E.g., I could use a remote part
- editor to access data in a local part (or vice-versa), which I
- assume can't do now. A secondary question is when SOM 3.0 will be
- available on platforms besides OS/2 (e.g., on MACOS, AIX, Windows *.*,
- and other UNIX).
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- Please feel free to correct any of the assumptions in the above questions
- in responding. I'm interested in these subjects because there is
- study within DAVIC (Digital Audio-Visual Council, an international
- industry group specifying ITV interoperability) on multimedia asset
- management using distributed object technology. DAVIC already specifies
- CORBA 2.0 as the middleware for user-to-user interactions, and to support
- the API for content loading. Technologies like OpenDoc seem useful as
- the actual object storage technology, depending on support for CORBA 2.0,
- and extensibility for storing specific media types, among other issues.
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- DWJ
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