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To: Kashish King who wrote (9647)	3/31/1998 1:03:00 AM
From: James Yegerlehner	Respond to of 10836

Good list! Thanks for taking the time. Some of these sources of brittleness apply just as well to statically-linked class libraries (e.g. you have to free your resources) as they do to COM. To the extent this is so, COM isn't a source of brittleness beyond what you have with, for instance, C++ classes; rather it is pretty much the status quo. Yes, to the extent the JAVA VM and its associated technologies (Beans, RMI, etc) protect one from these eventualities, yes, it constitutes a leap forward in technology. I'm not yet convinced its triumph over win32 is a foregone conclusion though.