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Distributed component object model
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Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) is an extension of Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM) to enable distribution across address spaces and networks. By leveraging COM, which is the fundamental technology used to build many Microsoft applications, DCOM applications can derive all the power of COM applications. Distribution capabilities in DCOM are realized by leveraging DCE Remote Procedure Call mechanisms and extending them to support the notion of remote objects.
DCOM provides most of the capabilities of a Request Broker. For example, it supports location transparency, connection management, resource management, concurrency control, versioning, language-neutrality and QoS management. Since DCOM is a component model, additional capabilities for composing and deploying component-based...
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Brown N, Kindel C. Distributed component object model protocol – DCOM/1.0, Internet Draft, Network Working Group, November 1996.
Horstmann M, Kirtland M. DCOM Architecture, DCOM Technical Articles, Microsoft Developer Network Library, July 23, 1997.
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Gokhale, A. (2018). DCOM. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1202
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