IBM Corp’s software supremo John Thompson told InfoWorld he sees Java containers and OpenDoc containers merging. With the Java Virtual Machine running on any desktop machine, it is desirable to turn Java applets into components that can interoperate with other Java applets so that one component knows what the other component is doing, and link them into more comprehensive applications. Now the way to componentize Java is to use the Corba wrappers – IIOP spec, this is OpenDoc – and you put that wrapper around these Java applets to create a Java component, he said, adding that Sun Microsystems Inc’s Java Beans is exactly that.
