Active / Compound

Document Architecture
Active Documents
• It Integrates multimedia information from multiple sources on a
network in a disciplined manner.
• Change the way users interact with applications.
• Enable a high degree of resource and network integration.
Elements of Active Documents
• Local Containers/ Workspaces
• Shared Containers / Workspaces
• Network Distributed Objects
Different levels
• Widely distributed objects
• Network distributed objects
• Multi purpose local objects
• Single process local objects
Different Types
• Data base objects
• Transaction objects
• Local C++ Objects

Technology Used
Distributed Objects (CORBA)
OpenDoc
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Approaches to Active Documents
• Single Platform Integration
• Multiplatform Integration
• Object to Object Calling Mechanism
• Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Exchange
• IBM’s System Object Manager
• RPC
• Object Linking and Embedding
• OPENDOC