Re: bonobo, is it COM+ for linux ?

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 08/31/03


Date: 30 Aug 2003 23:41:49 GMT

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, "Mithaz" <abinayshunyashynyaek@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have been reading the gnome developer documentation.
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/corba/html/book1.html
>
> Is bonobo COM+ for linux. I am having a hard time understanding the
> relationship between Gnome, ORBit (CORBA) and bonobo. Can someone please
> explain in brief hirearchy and relationship among these three. I just want
> to make sure that I am thinking in the tight direction.

CORBA is what is similar to COM+; both are descended from the Open
Group's DCE specification.

Bonobo is somewhat analagous to OLE or DDE (or whatever Microsoft
calls their "embedding graphical objects" technology today). It has
never quite taken off; everyone _isn't_ writing embeddable Bonobo
components.

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