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What is DCOM?

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What is DCOM?

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DCOM is a distributed object technology developed by Microsoft. In simple programmer terms, DCOM provides a mechanism for transparently executing function calls across computer systems. DCOM is a complex body of software that incorporates technologies such as distributed objects programming, object life cycle management, communications protocols, security, cross-platform interoperability. DCOM is in the same solution space as CORBA. DCOM is fully implemented on Windows NT and almost fully featured on Windows 95 and Windows 98. For an example of what DCOM for UNIX can make possible, check out this Visual Basic source code that wraps the Linux libc shared object into a class library. It is running on Linux using DCOM and an unreleased beta of software from the VBVM project.