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To: Winter who wrote (3140)	5/14/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) of 4903

GUI integration (to the end-user) and code integration are two completely different things that you seem to be using interchangably. You're reading the party line way too restrictively. GUI integration is not completely different from code integration. Rather, GUI integration is one aspect of code integration. Furthermore, it's much more than just the GUI that's being integrated. Was Microsoft lying when they gave that list of all those .DLL files that they said comprised Internet Explorer? COM is great as far as it goes, but it does not solve the problems that integration gives you. You can make the browser an object, make a standard set of APIs for it, and then be completely stuck when you find out that you need to alter the functionality of the object. Yes, Modular design does make seamless integration possible. However, the more you integrate, the less you can alter what you've integrated. That's just as true for COM, Corba, Java RMI, as much as for C or Fortran.

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