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I. Introduction

A major goal in OpenACS 4 is to unify and normalize many of the core services of the system into a coherent common data model and API. In the past, these services were provided to applications in an ad-hoc and irregular fashion. -Examples of such services include:

All of these services involve relating extra information and services to +Examples of such services include:

All of these services involve relating extra information and services to application data objects, examples of which include:

In the past, developers had to use ad-hoc and inconsistent schemes to interface to the various "general" services mentioned above. Since each service used its own scheme for storing its metadata and mapping this @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ separately.

Examples of utilities that do this in OpenACS 3.x system are:

The OM will support and unify this programming idiom by providing objects