g</EM></B>, e.g., by reducing
    dependencies in the TAO library so that programs need not link
    unused TAO components. <P>

<LI> <B><EM>Explicit subsetting</EM></B>, e.g., by supporting the <a
href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?orbos/98-08-04.pdf"><em>minimumCORBA
</em></a> specification to <a href =
"http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html">TAO</a>.  The <em>
minimumCORBA </em> specification removes the following features from
the <a href
="http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/">CO