Foreword
I worked for the World Wide Web Consortium in its early days at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). We decided we needed to learn about both COM and CORBA, at that time the leading frameworks for object-oriented programming over the network.
I called our Microsoft representative and asked who he could send to teach the Consortium staff the fundamentals of COM. I explained that the Consortium staff were very technical and were interested in the “why” of things at least as much as the “how.” I explained that we were designing the next generation Web protocols and knew just about everything there was to know about application protocols on the Internet, and that we'd built some very large object-oriented programs in C++ and Objective ...
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