Distributed Component Object Model
<programming> (DCOM)
Microsoft's extension of their
Component Object Model (COM) to support objects distributed across a
network.
DCOM has been submitted to the
IETF as a draft standard.
Since 1996, it has been part of
Windows NT and is also available for
Windows 95.
Unlike
CORBA, which runs on many operating systems, DCOM is currently (Dec 1997) only implemented by
Microsoft for
Microsoft Windows and by
Software AG, under the name "
EntireX", for
Unix and
IBM mainframes.
DCOM serves the same purpose as
IBM's DSOM {protocol}.
DCOM is broken because it's an object model that has no provisions for inheritance, one of the major reasons for object oriented programming in the first place.
Home (http://www.microsoft.com/com/tech/DCOM.asp)}.
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