The standard allows you to unplug from that. In the future, there are probably more of these boundaries that can be drawn. This is a new kind of foray that object people have been talking about for years. For years, we've been saying you can just buy these things and not have to write this stuff to get going. This is really the first, credible attempt at doing that.
Objects are good.
The people I've talked to who have had struggles with Java and big disappointments, have not understood that.