Standards for interoperability

Instructor's Guide


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The potential of an object-oriented approach, obviously, lies in the opportunities for reuse, both of code and design. However, reuse requires a common understanding of the basic principles underlying the technology and its application. More particularly, the reuse of code requires (a much more strict) agreement with respect to the components from which an application will be constructed and the language constructs used to implement them. In this section, we will look at the object linking and embedding facilities offered by Microsoft OLE, and the standardization efforts undertaken by the OMG (Object Management Group) directed towards the interoperability of object components. In addition, we will look at the efforts of the ODMG (Object Database Management Group) undertaken to develop a standard for persistent objects.