Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface technology for software components from Microsoft that enables using objects in a language-neutral...
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Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) is a proprietary Microsoft technology for communication between software components on networked computers....
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Examples are the object models of Java, the Component Object Model (COM), or Object-Modeling Technique (OMT). Such object models are usually defined...
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XPCOM (redirect from Cross Platform Component Object Model)
Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) is a cross-platform component model from Mozilla. It is similar to Component Object Model (COM), Common Object Request...
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Microsoft built many domain-specific component technologies on COM, including Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), and...
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an object-oriented model although the systems that use the CORBA do not have to be object-oriented. CORBA is an example of the distributed object paradigm...
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Entity–component–system (ECS) is a software architectural pattern mostly used in video game development for the representation of game world objects. An...
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become an architecture for software components known as the Component Object Model (COM), and later DCOM. When an OLE object is placed on the clipboard or embedded...
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The System Object Model (SOM) is an object-oriented shared library technology developed by IBM that supports defining an interface to an object so that its...
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Language binding (section Object models)
model Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) – extension enabling COM to work over networks Cross Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM) – Mozilla...
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ActiveX (redirect from ActiveX component)
framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded...
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List of Microsoft Windows application programming interfaces and frameworks (redirect from List of Microsoft frameworks and component object models)
frameworks. Component Model Component Object Model (COM) Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) COM+ Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), including:...
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Data Objects (ADO) comprises a set of Component Object Model (COM) objects for accessing data sources. A part of MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components),...
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Reference counting (section Component Object Model)
time-consuming because of the size of the object graph and slow access speed. Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) and WinRT makes pervasive use of reference...
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grown to support generics, anonymous methods, closures, and native Component Object Model (COM) support. Delphi and its C++ counterpart, C++Builder, are interoperable...
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Dynamic-link library (section Component Object Model)
concept of dynamic extensibility is taken to the extreme with the Component Object Model, the underpinnings of ActiveX. In Windows 1.x, 2.x and 3.x, all...
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Interface description language (category Data modeling languages)
IDL to add support for Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) OMG IDL: standardized by Object Management Group, used...
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originally developed by IONA Technologies DCOM - the Distributed Component Object Model from Microsoft RMI - the Remote Method Invocation Protocol from...
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Clemens Szyperski, Dominik Gruntz, Stephan Murer (2002). Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming. 2nd ed. ACM Press - Pearson Educational...
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Marshalling (computer science) (redirect from Object marshalling)
transport data between processes and/or between threads. In Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM), interface pointers must be marshalled when crossing COM apartment...
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ASCOM (standard) (redirect from Astronomy Common Object Model)
ASCOM (an abbreviation for AStronomy Common Object Model) is an open initiative to provide a standard interface to a range of astronomy equipment including...
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IUnknown (category Object-oriented programming)
interface is the fundamental interface of Component Object Model (COM). The COM specification mandates that COM objects must implement this interface. Furthermore...
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Distributed Component Object Model Interface description language IDEF4 Jeroo List of object-oriented programming languages Object association Object modeling language...
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Microsoft's Component Object Model, aggregation means that an object exports, as if it were their owner, one or several interfaces of another object it owns...
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inter-language Java remote method invocation (Java RMI) – Java Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) – Microsoft, inter-language (note that the stub is called...
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applications to be distributed across multiple computers (e.g. Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM)). Service-oriented architectures use specific communication...
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functioning on later versions of Windows. ActiveX Component Object Model (COM) Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Microsoft .NET Observer pattern "Net...
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and object query expressions on any MOF model or meta-model that cannot otherwise be expressed by diagrammatic notation. OCL is a key component of the...
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manner. The API provides a set of interfaces implemented using the Component Object Model (COM); it is otherwise unrelated to OLE. Microsoft originally intended...
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The Text Object Model (TOM) is a Microsoft Windows API that provides developers with object-based rich text manipulation interfaces. It is implemented...
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