<s>
Bonobo	B-Language
is	O
an	O
obsolete	O
component	O
framework	O
for	O
the	O
GNOME	B-Application
free	O
desktop	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bonobo	B-Language
is	O
designed	O
to	O
create	O
reusable	O
software	O
components	O
and	O
compound	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Through	O
its	O
development	O
history	O
it	O
resembles	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
OLE	B-Operating_System
technology	O
and	O
is	O
GNOME	B-Application
's	O
equivalent	O
of	O
KDE	B-Application
's	O
KParts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bonobo	B-Language
was	O
developed	O
as	O
a	O
solution	O
to	O
the	O
problems	O
and	O
requirements	O
of	O
the	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
community	O
in	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
complex	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bonobo	B-Language
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Common	B-Architecture
Object	I-Architecture
Request	I-Architecture
Broker	I-Architecture
Architecture	I-Architecture
(	O
CORBA	B-Architecture
)	O
or	O
its	O
GNOME	B-Application
implementation	O
ORBit	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Through	O
Bonobo	B-Language
the	O
functions	O
of	O
one	O
application	O
can	O
be	O
integrated	O
into	O
another	O
:	O
for	O
example	O
,	O
Gnumeric	B-Language
spreadsheet	B-Application
tables	O
can	O
be	O
directly	O
embedded	O
into	O
AbiWord	B-Language
text	O
document	O
by	O
including	O
Gnumeric	B-Language
as	O
Bonobo	B-Language
component	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Inspired	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
OLE	B-Operating_System
,	O
Bonobo	B-Language
was	O
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
Ximian	O
for	O
compound	O
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bonobo	B-Language
was	O
included	O
for	O
the	O
first	O
time	O
in	O
Gnome	B-Application
1.2	O
in	O
May	O
2000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
GNOME	B-Application
2.4	O
Bonobo	B-Language
is	O
officially	O
considered	O
obsolete	O
,	O
and	O
developers	O
are	O
advised	O
to	O
switch	O
to	O
alternatives	O
such	O
as	O
D-Bus	B-Language
or	O
the	O
GIO	O
component	O
of	O
GLib	B-Language
instead	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
D-Bus	B-Language
replaced	O
Bonobo	B-Language
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Ridley	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bonobo	B-Language
and	O
ORBit	B-Application
libraries	O
were	O
removed	O
from	O
GNOME	B-Application
in	O
version	O
2.22	O
.	O
</s>
