> ActiveX, Corba, Bonobo; they always seem to get so complex and bloated that no one wants anything to do with them when there are other options. The only expe

> ActiveX, Corba, Bonobo; they always seem to get so complex and bloated that no one wants anything to do with them when there are other options. The only experience I've had with any of these technologies that didn't end up inducing nausea was ATL. It made COM/ActiveX tolerable for common, simple use cases. I learned the CRTP while writing ATL components and applied it in my own C++ work to some success.