on 3/26/01 10:24 AM, Roel Wuyts at roel.wuyts at iam.unibe.ch wrote:

> About the interface question: suppose we define an interface for
> Smalltalk-beans (based on conventions of course, maybe the current Javabeans
> interface can be used as inspiration for things to include/omit). Couldn't
> this be enough to propel us already ahead ?
> 
> We could make a swiki page describing the interface, and we could try
> writing components that adhere to this interface. Such components should be
> interoperable. 

Don't forget the king of component architectures, banned by fiat by Bill
Gates:

OpenDoc.

If there was a well-defined  OpenDoc-like architecture for Squeak, that
would go WAAAY beyond what Beans offer, in many respects.


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