IBM System Object Model

The Object Model ( SOM) is a system developed by IBM ( in the later versions of CORBA- based ) extension of the operating system to an object-oriented and distributed platform ( DSOM ) for applications. SOM was also available for other operating systems, including Windows NT, MacOS, and AIX, and formed the basis for OpenDoc. SOM is similar in concept to the Component Object Model (COM ) from Microsoft.

SOMobjects

At high abstraction level, the OS/2-System thereby represents as a collection of classes and objects that support a developer in any programming language, the SOM, use and can expand.

Components

  • SOM run-time kernel
  • SOM Event Management Framework
  • SOMobjects Interface Repository Framework
  • SOMobjects Utility Classes
  • Distributed SOM Framework

Versions

The further development was discontinued in 1997.

IBM AIX
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