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Activating the Internet with ActiveX Technologies

The World Wide Web is no longer just an experience of browsing through static pages. ActiveX™ technology activates the Web by populating pages with interactive objects, all based on a common standard and therefore able to work together.

Component Testing

Software development styles have changed a lot of times over the past few decades catering to the needs of the era, which they represented. With increasing pressures on time and money, the concept of component based software development originated. In this method, the software project is outsourced to other development organizations and finally, the third party components (Commercial-off-the-shelf or COTS) are integrated to form a software system.

What is a Component?

Components are typically business objects that have predefined and reusable behaviors. Implementation detail is hidden in the interfaces, which isolate and encapsulate a set of functionality. Interfaces are the means by which components connect. An interface is a set of named operations that can be invoked by clients. More importantly, well-defined interfaces define the component's entry points, and a component's accessibility is done only via its interface. In a component-based approach, providers and clients communicate via the specification of the interface, which becomes the mediating middle that lets the two parties collaborate and work together.

What is ActiveX?

ActiveX is a set of technologies from Microsoft that enables interactive content for the World Wide Web. Before ActiveX, Web content was static, 2-dimensional text and graphics. With ActiveX, Web sites come alive using multimedia effects, interactive objects, and sophisticated applications that create a user experience comparable to that of high-quality CD-ROM titles. ActiveX provides the glue that ties together a wide assortment of technology building blocks to enable these "active" Web sites.

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