SOMobjects Summary: Apple has licensed and has ported IBM's SOMobjects technology to the Macintosh. SOMobjects is a multi-platform standard providing for system-level sharable objects in a language- neutral way. It also solves the "fragile base class" problem of object-oriented shared libraries, avoiding the need for client libraries to be recompiled when the base class they inherit from is in a different library and is changed. To offer these benefits (multi-platform support and fragile base-class resolution) SOMobjects requires the use of an Interface Description Language (IDL) compiler as a first step in the development process. An MPW-hosted version of this compiler is now available. SOMobjects runs on top of CFM, and thus is available for both 68K and native PowerPC Macintosh development. It is a foundation technology for OpenDoc. SOMobjects for Mac OS version 2.0.8 contains several bug fixes over version 2.0.7.