Away from the management of static documents toward complex, compound documents.
Complex, compound documents at the far end of the continuum, however, exhibit none of the above characteristics. They are not tied to one application or platform; they are dynamic, constantly in a process of change; and they are "intelligent", carrying information about their content and structure.
Object-oriented architectures, where information is contained in objects— units of information of a finer granularity than traditional documents in this new object-oriented conceptualization are considered to be containers of a wide variety of information, rather than single flat files or blobs. Instead, they are simply a collection of pointers to external elements that are dynamically assembled as they are retrieved.
The resulting compound documents can be delivered as one of two types:
1) pre-specified documents that are constructed in the same way each time;
Complex, compound documents at the far end of the continuum, however, exhibit none of the above characteristics. They are not tied to one application or platform; they are dynamic, constantly in a process of change; and they are "intelligent", carrying information about their content and structure.
Object-oriented architectures, where information is contained in objects— units of information of a finer granularity than traditional documents in this new object-oriented conceptualization are considered to be containers of a wide variety of information, rather than single flat files or blobs. Instead, they are simply a collection of pointers to external elements that are dynamically assembled as they are retrieved.
The resulting compound documents can be delivered as one of two types:
1) pre-specified documents that are constructed in the same way each time;
2) virtual documents that are assembled for a specific purpose, that exist temporarily, and which may change from one viewing to another.
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