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RE: Standard for plug-in modules for application software?



> I wonder whether there is any standard method to allow application
> software to be modularized.

	Many.  CORBA, DSOM, ILU, GUILE, JavaBeans.  There are source, binary
modules.  Networked or not.  Providing services or widgets.  You choose.
Even shared libraries.


> For example, how do browsers implement the interface to plugins?

	Netscape has its own API.  M$IE's is DCOM.  DCOM is proprietary.
Therefore, DCOM is bad.


> If Hebrew rendering algorithm is spun off to a separate module,

	Couldn't it be done using GNU's GUILE and GTK?  Someone has already
something for GTK... http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/gtk/

	There are lots of homework to be done on this issue before you
can really understand what you really want and need...
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Amdocs Brasil Ltda