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COM is horrible to write code for (although not THAT bad), and is tricky to troubleshoot (hurray for TLBs and massive hex registry strings) but it is a very han
by 72deluxe 12y ago
COM is horrible to write code for (although not THAT bad), and is tricky to troubleshoot (hurray for TLBs and massive hex registry strings) but it is a very handy feature of the system!
Does anything exist on other platforms like Mac OSX and Linux? CORBA was written all over the place GNOME1 / 2 time as I recall but I don't actually know if anything like COM exists anywhere?
- zamalek 12y agoIf I'm not mistaken dbus is a spiritual sibling of DCOM.
- 72deluxe 12y agoThanks very much, good to know. I will take a look at it. Thanks.
- kevingadd 12y agoGecko uses XPCOM extensively (though less than it used to). XPCOM is basically a cross-platform implementation of the same principles as Microsoft COM. In particular, XPCOM allows easy binding with the Spidermonkey JS runtime so you can expose things to scripts.