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From: Jerome_V_Vollborn@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Objectification
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Date: 5 Aug 89 03:07:14 GMT
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Part of Ed's article has to do with the environment that objects live 
in.  Let me propose my ideal environment and then note some problems 
in building that environment.  The physical world environment is a large 
manufacturing company where parts are produced in both domestic and 
foreign (European and Middle Eastern) plants and assembled into 
finished products in the Pacific Rim countries.  All of these plants 
are currently connected by a wide area network.

The top level object is a shippable part.  Component parts are 
subobjects.  The production plants, production equipment and materials 
are also objects.  Each of these software objects that model the 
real world objects exist in an enterprize wide object space.  The 
production objects (and under special cases production equipment objects) 
move through the production process and then cease to exist when they