Bringing COM Technology to Alignment Software
Author(s) -
Lothar Langer
Publication year - 2002
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/808710
Subject(s) - component object model , computer science , software , component (thermodynamics) , software engineering , component based software engineering , resource oriented architecture , visual basic , software framework , architecture , object oriented programming , software development , operating system , physics , thermodynamics , art , visual arts
The Component Object Model (COM) is an application programming interface (API) that allows for creation of so called ‘objects’. These objects are software constructs to be useful for the service they provide for a client. The client may be another piece of software, a conventional application program or possibly another ‘object’. Objects are packaged in ‘components’. Here ‘component’ means the (more physical) representation of software – a data file on some storage medium.
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