> There is SOM for windows, and SOM is planned for other platforms (some of
> the UNIX variants, I think). SOM is not a proprietary OS/2-only thing.


Its on the mac as well for OpenDoc and Objectising the system


gary>

Why do you say that SOM is not multi-platform?

SOM is already available on AIX, and OS/2, and (I think) Windows.

It is the basis for some of OpenDoc and THAT is certainly intended to be
multiplatform.

Do you mean that it is proprietary, perhaps?

James

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 Actually, SOM is implemented in C and uses C bindings. The Direct To SOM
stuff is neat and works well but does impose a little bit of overhead. The
overhead is ok usually but the biggest problem is the fact that SOM isn't a platform
independent solution. The whole point is we write code that compiles and
executes without any changes on multiple OS platforms. This really is a problem
that needs to be addressed as a C++ standards issue, IMHO.

 thanx & later,

  Ben Scherrey
  Proteus Technologies, Inc.

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