About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Computer file, Common Object Request Broker Architecture, FIFO, Remote procedure call, Berkeley sockets, Object Linking and Embedding, Distributed Component Object Model, DCOP, Virtual synchrony, Server Message Block, Futures and promises, Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, Ajax, Internet socket, Pipeline, Message passing, XML pipeline, STREAMS, Message queue, TIPC, Distributed Computing Environment, D-Bus, Internet Communications Engine, Tee, Shared memory, Named pipe, .NET Remoting, Dynamic Data Exchange, Parallel Virtual Machine, Local Procedure Call, Microsoft Transaction Server, Hartmann pipeline, Amazon Simple Queue Service, MQ, Traffic flow, Apache Thrift, Mmap, Apple events, Messaging pattern, Network Information Service, Distributed object communication, 9P, Computer network programming, DSP/BIOS Link, Anonymous pipe, Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual, Libt2n, Class skeleton, Avro, Class stub, Unix domain socket, MailSlot, Active message, EntireX, XMLSocket, Universal space, LINX, Channel, MetaWeblog, Appia framework, ToolTalk, Blocking, Functoid, Pipeline programming, Runtime Callable Wrapper, OpenBinder, DDObjects, Rendezvous, Asynchronous method dispatch, Distributed Ruby, Distributed Inter-Process Communication, Communication endpoint, Group communication system, Typed communication endpoint, Data Link Provider Interface, PF INET, SECIOP. Excerpt: Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface standard for software componentry introduced by Microsoft in 1993. It is used to enable interprocess communication and dynamic object creation in a large range of programming languages. The term COM is often used in the Microsoft software development industry as an umbrella term that encompasses the OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX, COM+ and DCOM technologies. The essence of COM is a language-neutral ...
