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Applets link to compound documents
AS PART OF A joint effort by Apple Computer Inc. and IBM to link OpenDoc's fortunes to the Internet, an extension to OpenDoc that embraces the Java development environment will be announced this week at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference.
IBM and Apple are still negotiating with Sun Microsystems Inc. over the exact details of how to best integrate the OpenDoc and Java environments.
The negotiations focus on building hooks into Java that would let OpenDoc treat Java as an OpenDoc part by mapping Java applets to the Systems Object Model (SOM) architecture.
That mapping would let Java applets work as parts of a larger compound document and give Java access to OpenDoc's CORBA-based object request brokers, sources said.
Apple is expected to announce its plans for integrating Java into OpenDoc for System 7.5 and Copland this week.
IBM, meanwhile, will tightly integrate...