I recommend getting Don Box's book "Essential Com"
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> I recently read this at:
>
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/18/magazine/moz_aint_netscap
e.html
>
> =======
> "XPCOM is a technology that allows for cross-platform communication
> between software
> components and pieces of code. For example, the piece of code that
> controls the interaction of
> the browser's back button is an XPCOM function call that works exactly
> the same way across all
> platforms, whereas before, this code needed to be different for each
> platform the developers
> were writing for.
> =======
>
> The articale goes to state that Mozilla is developing the browser ( &
> other stuff ) in a cross platform code base that allows the mozilla
> developer to create only one code base for all platforms and that other
> organizations developing web apps with mozilla technology can have the
> same advantage.
>
> It sounds interesting! I don't understand it though.
>
> Is XPCOMM a cross platform language like Java? If so why make it
> instead of using Java? Does it use a virtual machine?
>
> How does XPCOMM work as a cross platform code?
>
> I also don't understand what is meant by a "web application" that people
> beyond mozilla would use mozilla technology for.
>
> I guess you don't mean web pages. Would this mean things like web
> servers or something similar.
>
> I'm fascinated
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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