[unios] Re: COM

Pieter Dumon Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:40:10 +0100 (MET)


From: Pieter Dumon <Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be>

> 
> From: Pat Wendorf <beholder@ican.net>
> 
> > From: Pieter Dumon <Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be>
> > 
> > Did you know the Flux OsKit uses COM as object-model!
> > So Microsoft has designed something good too....
> > I'm looking at how they use it, now.
> > 
> 
> Really? Trill mentioned he wanted to use the Flux kit for Tunes.  I have
> a hard time thinking MS can do anything right :)

:-))

But COM is a really clean design (I'm not speaking about ActiveX and other
built on top of it, and I don't know DCOM enough, neither CORBA, top
compare them). COM si actually a binary specification to let Components
interact in a generic and standard way.
 
Pieter


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