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Also see Superdistribution; Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier , Objective-C , Perl , Publications , Software Engineering Advanced Object Technology (LRNG731) . Social Construction also describes an interesting bridge between humanities and object technology.

Objective-C home page by Steve Dekorte

Object Management Group

OMG Documentation Produced by downloading ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/#doclist.txt# and converting it to html manually.

IDL Compiler ANNOUNCEMENT CHANGES COPYRIGHT INSTALL OMG_IDL_CFE_1.3.tar.Z OMG_IDL_CFE_1.3.tar.Z.uu README

CommonPoint Application System by Taligent Foundation for workgroup enterprise solutions Portable across multiple platforms Increased developer productivity and innovation Superior user experience for individuals and groups Personal computing within the business world is moving rapidly from desktops for individual productivity to networked, "enterprise" systems, which focus on workgroup collaboration, data analysis, decision support, and workflow automation. The goal is to empower members of an enterprise to efficiently collaborate, reach consensus, and execute decisions. To enable this migration, a new class of applications must be developed.

COLLABORATION RESULTS IN OBJECT-BASED OLTP SPECIFICATION Framingham, MA -- September 12, 1994 - The Object Management Group (OMG)announced today nine major on-line transaction processing (OLTP) and object technology(OT) vendors have jointly developed a specification for an Object Transaction Service. The collaboration by Groupe Bull, IBM, ICL Plc, IONA Technologies, Ltd., Novell, Inc.,SunSoft, Inc., Tandem Computers, Tivoli Systems and Transarc Corporation has been approved by OMG's Object Services Task Force and is progressing towards adoption into the Object Management Architecture (OMA).

Sunsoft Delivers Critical Technology For Networked Object Interoperability Provides Interoperability Across Multiple Networked Object Systems Mountain View, Calif. -- March 21, 1995 -- SunSoft, Inc. and the Object Management Group (OMG) today announced the immediate availability of a free-of-charge source code implementation of the CORBA 2.0 Internet Inter-ORB (Object Request Broker) Protocol. This code is highly portable and provides a reference implementation to help software vendors test and deliver OMG-compliant products to market rapidly. If you feel like skipping the press release parts, the key information is that ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/interop/iiop.tar.Z has an implementation of the IIOP protocol which you may download immediately!

OpenStep and Solaris A White Paper The SunSoft / NeXT collaboration combines the distributed computing strengths of Solaris, including the system-wide object services provided by Project NeXT's OpenStep, the industry leader in object-oriented applications end-user computing. This white paper describes OpenStep's features and SunSoft's plans for incorporating OpenStep into Solaris.

Sunsoft And Next Partner To Drive Volume Object Standard NeXT to Publish Open Specification; SunSoft Licenses Implementation for Use in Solaris SAN FRANCISCO -- November 23, 1993 -- To accelerate the standardization of object technology, SunSoft, the system software subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., and NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced a series of agreements where NeXT will publish an open specification, called OpenStep, and SunSoft will license NEXTSTEP's application environment for use in its Solaris enterprise system software. OpenStep Specification OpenStep is an operating system independent, object-oriented application layer based on NeXT's advanced object technology. OpenStep contains these major components: Application Kit Foundation Kit Display PostScript System

Project DOE is SunSoft's corporate-wide development effort to integrate distributed object technology into the Solaris OS. OMG(Object Management Group) is the industry wide body formed to create specifications for distributed object technology. It currently has more than 370 members.

IDL documents and compiler by SunSoft OMG IDL(Interface Definition Language) is part of OMG's CORBA 1.1 specification and provides a standardized way for defining object interfaces. OMG IDL forms the basis for distributed object interactions in Project DOE.

SUNSITE IDL by SunSoft date: 6-Feb-95 links: 21 bytes: 3192 keys: idl Select one of: * INDEX * OMG-IDL-CFE Sunsoft's implementation of the OMG interface development language * PWI documents relating to the Public Windows Interface, an open API based Microsoft Windows * README * Wabi * admin-tools * catalyst * development-tools * gpc * mde patches and information from market development engineering * sample-drivers * solaris-x86 * sun-dist Sun distrib..

DOE: White Papers by SunSoft Developing OpenStep Applications Using NEXTSTEP3.2(Preliminary) Distributed Object Environment: An Infrastructure for Enterprise Rightsizing OpenStep and Solaris Project DOE: Software Rightsizing Object Services: Working in Concert Object Storage in DOE OpenStep Starter Developer Kit

IDL (Interactive Data Language) FAQ Archive-name: idl-faq Last-modified: 9/19/94 Version: 2.8

FAQ- comp.object

FAQ- Object Orientation

Object Port - resource and directory for information on Object Oriented Technology.

An Online Web Reference Guide (Last updated Jan. 4, 1995) Complete OO Design Terms And Definitions Listing OO Design Methodologies Reference Internet OOP Resource Directory List Of Contributors To The OO Design Server Administrivia, and Miscellaneous Info

The Booch Method The Booch method is a widely used OO-method, that helps you design your systems using the object paradigm. This www-page will help you understand the Booch method, if you are already familiar with OO-programming. It shows you how to map Booch-symbols to C++.

Object-Oriented Information Sources by unique.ch This page collects pointers to various information sources on the World Wide Web related to Object-Oriented languages and systems. The information sources have recently been reorganized as a searchable catalog. Suggestions are welcome! Some pre-packaged queries: General OO Information Resources Search Engines Calls for Papers (Journals and Meetings) Research Groups (home pages) FTP Archives (publications) Bibliographies Special Interest Groups Companies and Products Programming Languages News groups Frequently Asked Questions

CORBA Presentations and Viewgraphs by Richard M. Soley, the V.P. and Technical Director of the OMG. Viewgraphs from various talks on CORBA and the OMG. All these presentations were prepared A Febuary 1994 talk on CORBA by Bob Tomlinson (LANL) Formats: HTML (a standard Web document), FrameMaker, PostScript. Newish CORBA Talk by Richard M. Soley (V.P. and Technical Director of the OMG) Formats: PowerPoint, Postscript. Generic OMG Talk by Richard M. Soley (V.P. and Technical Director of the OMG) Formats: PowerPoint, PostScript. Creating Industry Consensus by Richard M. Soley (V.P. and Technical Director of the OMG) Formats: PowerPoint, PostScript. The Software Crisis by Richard M. Soley (V.P. and Technical Director of the OMG) Formats: PowerPoint, PostScript.

IBM Object Technology A panel of senior IBM technical people discussed object technology at the POWER Conference in May 1994. Here are some of the questions asked by developers during that session.

General Information About Object Technologies by IBM "Object-oriented" has replaced the term "structured" in the software development world. It is a way of organizing programs that holds the promise of wide-scale reuse and increased productivity. Object techniques have been used in such diverse environments as distributed computing, graphical programming, multimedia, realtime embedded systems and enterprise modeling. The major focus of the object world consists of frameworks, the ability to create and manage persistent objects, the ability to share objects with location transparency, the availability of a credible object development environment including modelling and design tools, and some way to coexist with or migrate legacy code. When object technology achieves its full potential, it will provide end users and developers with the ability to build dynamic, ad hoc tools from simple functional parts. It will speed the development process through reuse of previous investments in code, and will enable people who are not programmers to create programs.

OpenDoc OpenDoc is a compound document component architecture. Designed initially by Apple Computer to provide an object-oriented end-user environment, the concept of a compound document has evolved far beyond the original word processing focus. A compound document in this new environment has become analogous to a structured container that allows a variety of functions or data (i.e., objects) developed for different purposes to appear as a united application. OpenDoc provides a consistent method for linking application components. In this way, it is very much like Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) environment. However, in contrast to OLE, OpenDoc is designed to be a distributed environment. It is integrated with SOM and will provide interoperability with the Taligent environment. In addition, OpenDoc is designed to allow developers to incorporate OLE objects. Likewise, OpenDoc allows OpenDoc parts to be embedded in OLE documents. In this way, developers avoid some of the application development and deployment limitations of OLE 2.0.

IBM's System Object Model (SOM) What is SOM? SOMobject information IBM SOMobjects Spec Sheet IBM SOMobjects for MVS, an Object Oriented Solution IBM SOMobjects Developer Toolkit and Workgroup Enabler Version 2.1 for OS/2, AIX and Windows IBM SOMobjects for OS/400 and SOMobjects Developer Toolkit for OS/400

OMG Standards for Object-Oriented Programming By Don J. Belisle Object-oriented technology holds the promise of a significant improvement in programmer productivity. This article describes the efforts of the Object Management Group (OMG) to develop standards that will make object-oriented software portable, modular, and interoperable. It also discusses how these standards have already affected the design of the object-oriented technology that IBM is incorporating into AIX.

comp.groupware Comp.groupware is a Usenet conference for professional level discussion of groupware. A conferencing system is a type of groupware application, and this part of the FAQ list suggests how to use this newsgroup most effectively. Please help demonstrate the effective use of a newsgroup by reading this part completely before posting.

comp.lang.objective-c This is the first in a series of three informational postings concerning comp.lang.objective-c. This first part answers FAQs; the second part lists available class libraries and the third part is a simple sample Objective-C program.

comp.software-eng The information in the FAQs and the comp.software-eng archives is available through the World-Wide Web (via browsers such as Mosaic and Lynx) at URL http://www.qucis.queensu.ca:1999/Software-Engineering/ Everything visible through the Web is also available via FTP; the above URL leads to the same directory as you get via anonymous FTP to ftp://ftp.qucis.queensu.ca/pub/software-eng/www

comp.lang.smalltalk This is a Smalltalk frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) document, distributed by Craig Latta (Craig.Latta@NetJam.ORG). It is posted fortnightly to the USENET newsgroups comp.lang.smalltalk and news.answers . There now exists a WWW-verison (converted by Henrik Gedenryd) at http://XCF.Berkeley.EDU/misc/smalltalk/FAQ .