Re: SOM does compound documents?

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>>Oh?  SOM now has compound document technology?  I guess this means that
>>OpenDoc is dead...
>>
>>Sigh.
>
>Sigh to you. OpenDoc is a cross-platform standard for compound documents.
>The object model used to implement it under OS/2 is SOM.

OpenDoc's main functions are accessing components, using components,
storing and sharing components, and visualizing components.

SOM is the standard used in OpenDoc for component access.  OSA is the
framework for using components (the automating, extensible scripting
language which allows components to interact).  Bento is of course used
for storage (as in the .WK4 files used by 1-2-3).  The OpenDoc core
is used to visualize components (and interoperate with OLE).

SOM does allow you to create objects (or compound documents) and
access them (SOM is that component access standard remember), but it
provides no solution for storing compound documents (no standard
solution anyway) for visualizing compound documents, or for storing
and sharing components, until you move up to OpenDoc.  Beautifully,
though, SOM objects can easily be worked into OpenDoc components
in the future.

Bottom line?  SOM can be used to make compound documents, but since
you're implementing SOM, and have to use something for the other
aspects of document management, you might as well use OpenDoc.



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