Apple Ships OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF Release 1)

OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF) Release 1 Delivers a Rich, Robust
Framework for Building OpenDoc and Cyberdog Components

WWDC, SAN JOSE, California--May 13, 1996--Apple Computer, Inc. today
announced the premiere release of OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF), an
object-oriented, cross-platform framework for developing OpenDoc and
Cyberdog components.

OpenDoc Development Framework (ODF) simplifies the development of OpenDoc
and Internet-savvy components by providing a rich infrastructure of
classes, libraries and default behaviors. With ODF you can develop OpenDoc
components that are Internet-savvy and can plug-and-play with other
OpenDoc and Cyberdog parts and containers.

ODF Release 1 which is provided in source code form by Apple, is available
on the Macintosh today. ODF can be used with Macintosh Programmer's
Workshop, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Symantec C++ for Power Macintosh, and
other popular development environments.

"Beginning with ODF Release 1, we offer Release-to-Release Binary-
Compatibility between releases thus protecting your development efforts
for the long term," said Sharada Achanta, Frameworks product manager.
"Developers building OpenDoc parts have been praising ODF as a superior
development framework that has significantly improved their
productivity."

ODF Release 1 is available now on the WWW and in the OpenDoc DR5 SDK.

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