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'''Distributed Objects Everywhere''' ('''DOE''') was a long-running [[Sun Microsystems]] project to build a [[distributed computing]] environment based on the [[CORBA]] system in the 'back end' and [[OpenStep]] as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon thereafter, it remained [[vaporware]] for many years before it was finally released as '''NEO''' in 1995. It was sold for only a short period before being dropped (along with OpenStep) in 1996. In its place is what is today known as [[Enterprise JavaBeanJavaBeans]]s.
== Background ==
By the time DOE, now known as NEO, was released in 1995,<ref>{{cite press release
|publisher= Sun Microsystems, Inc.
|date= September 20, 1995
|url= http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1995-09/sunflash.950920.1420.xml
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070311022126/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1995-09/sunflash.950920.1420.xml
| archivedate = 2007-03-11
|title= SunSoft Introduces NEO, the Industry's First Complete Networked Object Computing Environment
|accessdate= 2006-12-13
}}</ref> Sun had already moved on to [[Java (programming language)|Java]] as their next big thing. Java was now the GUI of choice for client-side applications, and Sun's OpenStep plans were quietly dropped (see [[Lighthouse Design]]). NEO was re-positioned as a Java system with the introduction of the "Joe" framework,<ref>{{cite press release
|publisher= Sun Microsystems, Inc.
|date= March 26, 1996
|url= http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1996-03/sunflash.960326.13870.xml
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070320052957/http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/1996-03/sunflash.960326.13870.xml
| archivedate = 2007-03-20
|title= Sun Announces Product that Connects Java to Business Applications
|accessdate= 2006-12-13
}}</ref> but it saw little use. Components of NEO and Joe were eventually subsumed into [[Enterprise JavaBeans]].<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-11-1997/swol-11-neo.html
|title = Goodbye NEO, hello Enterprise Java Beans
|accessdate = 2013-05-01
|author = Robert McMillan
|author2=Niall McKay
|date = November 14, 1997
|work = SunWorld
}}</ref>
{{cite journal
| quotes =
| last = Shah
| first = Rawn
| date = June 1, 1996
| title = Distributed Object Computing with Joe and NEO
| journal = JavaWorld
| url = http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-1996/jw-06-exceptions.html
| accessdate = 2006-12-13
}}
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