Foreword
Several years ago, Stu abandoned the world of COM for what he had hoped would be greener pastures. While many of his colleagues felt he had lost his senses, Stu ignored our skepticism and walked away from COM completely. This was especially difficult given the fact that his employer had a tremendous investment in COM and had achieved relatively little traction in the Java world at the time.
Based on this book, I feel the move was beneficial both to Stu and to those who will be influenced by this book.
Stu's view on the Java platform is quite novel. This book portrays the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as a substrate for component software. Are there languages and compilers that generate these components? Sure, but that isn't the focus of this ...
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