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To: Steve Wood who wrote (499)	7/14/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) of 5102

COM is a massive canyon of complexity coupled with an ant hill of functionality. COM is like a some throw-away high-school computer science project gone awry and given a failing grade. You can reuse COM components like you can reuse Microsoft Word: you don't have to buy a new copy of Word every time you run it. Not even the most experience COM developer can create a clean C++ application using COM. It is the ugliest, most archaic and bush league software infrastructure known to man, bar none. Derivation is a nightmare, aggregation is an abortion, remote access is an aborted nightmare. Java and Java Beans are clean, powerful, elegant, sensible, well though out and down right beautiful. As every programmer should know: premature optimization is the root of all evil. The Java environment is being aggressively optimized now that the infrastructure is pretty much stable. I suspect we will see exponential growth in the availability of vertical market Java Beans once it has been accepted by IT managers as THE standard. BTW, had they wanted to, Microsoft could have developed a vastly superior C++ framework but that would have competed with Visual Basic and they couldn't have that.

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