Blogging Roller

Deigo Doval is digging into Open Office and it's programming interfaces and has discovered Open Office's own Universal Network Objects (UNO) component model. Components models like <a href= "http://developer.gnome.org/arch/component/bonobo.html">Bonobo, <a href= "http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/">Dot-Net's, <a href= "http://www.corba.org">CORBA, <a href= "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/">XPCOM, and <a href= "http://www.microsoft.com/com/default.asp">COM, and <a href= "http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/">JavaBeans are fascinating, and I really mean that, but how many of these friggin' universes do we really need? I understand that OpenOffice.org wants to support cross-language components, but couldn't they have started with CORBA as Bonobo does, XPCom as Mozilla does, or the Dot-Net model as Ximian does? I guess inventing your own component model is just way too much fun.