The Component Object Model (COM) is (or was...) the way in Windows to provide language-neutral software components.
Is there any programming model in Linux/UNIX with the same philosophy of code reuse through binary components?
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On Linux, DBus is currently in the process of becoming the de-facto higher-level standard.
Georg Fritzsche
2010-05-26 02:32:15
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Sun RPC was supposed to be that. Then there was CORBA. Then GNOME Bonobo and KDE DCOP. Now it looks like D-Bus is latest fashion.
Nikolai N Fetissov
2010-05-26 02:38:14
+1 for pointing out the irritating moving target.
JUST MY correct OPINION
2010-05-26 02:42:53
Yes, seems DBUS is the way to go.Thankz.
Hernán
2010-05-26 04:58:38
Ah! What about XPCOM? It's too much restricted to programming for Mozilla projects? Or it's COM-like?
Hernán
2010-05-26 05:28:05
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The Evolution email client as part of GNOME uses CORBA. It uses ORBit which is a lightweight CORBA ORB.
Eddy Pronk
2010-05-26 02:42:46