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Just a Little SOM Thing for Linux Developers

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[ Thanks to Esther
Schindler for this link. ]

“Could the open-source community use a library packaging
technology that enables languages to share class libraries
regardless of the language an application was written in? I dare
say it could, especially since the code to accomplish that goal was
written (and shelved) more than ten years ago. All it takes to make
that code available is to ask IBM to release SOM and DSOM as
open-source.

“System Object Model (SOM) and distributed SOM (DSOM) are
technologies based on the interface defininition language (IDL)
standard, enables a software developer to establish communication
between disparate objects which may not be written in the same
language…”

Complete
Story

Related Story:
GNUStep
and GNOME working together: Wow! That would be COOL!(Dec 05,
1998)

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