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Greetings all!

 I have seen that recently there have been posts about possible Java
usage ala Oberon and, on a seperate thread, questions about OMI.
Although the threads are unrelated at the current time, I found it
interesting that interest in both topics seem to coincide in time.
 J. Marais has a document in his Spirit of Oberon release having to
do with self contained documents, including any necessary code to
drive specialized Gadgets within the document. Also M. Franz for
several years has been telling us about OMI (Object Module
Interchange??) where a compact description of an application is
totally platform independant and compiled to native code on the
target machine *ON THE FLY*! In fact the latest release of Oberon
System 3 for the Mac has been distributed in these OMI "slim
binaries"!
 The folks at ETHZ have many fantastic ideas but yet as the topic of
a previous thread stated "whither OMI?". I also add "whither self
contained documents?". The many good ideas coming from the halls of
ETHZ echo hollow as everyone whispers "Java" and it becomes the
defacto "standard". I realize that those in the know know that Java
actually does have its roots in Oberon but it sure would be nice if
Java can have a worthy competitor from the very people that gave Java
some of its "spirit".

  Anyway, seeing simultaneous posts on OMI and Java just made me
think of the connection between the two topics. The latest versions
of System 3 have a very nice seamless integration bewteen opening
Oberon docs and Web docs. Shall OMI (perhaps ala self contained
documents??) be added within the next System 3 release?? ...Just a
thought while I'm musing on the topic.

    -Alex-

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