Talon is designed to be a simple yet powerful component system similar to XPCOM or Microsoft COM. Talon solves a number of problems with these existing systems and also incorporates Reputations (Sierra) as part of its Component factory mechanism. Since Talon uses RCEs to determine what components to return, natural selection can take hold and a Talon-based system can "evolve" over time to become more efficient and powerful. This mechanism is very similar to advanced profiler technologies but works with distributed systems.

See http://talon.openprivacy.org for more information.

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