What is the relationship between COM or CORBA and the DOM?
The Document Object Model, despite its name, is not an object model in the same way as the Component Object Model (COM). The COM, like CORBA, is a language-independent way to specify interfaces and objects; the Document Object Model is a set of interfaces and objects designed for managing HTML and XML documents. The DOM may be implemented using language-independent systems like COM or CORBA; it may also be implemented using language-specific bindings like the Java or ECMAScript bindings that we define.
