BEA WebLogic Server™ 8.1 Unleashed
by Mark Artiges, Gupreet Singh Bhasin, Bernard Ciconte, Malcolm Garland, Saranathan Govindarajan, James Huang, Subramanian Kovilmadam, Kunal Mittal, Paul J. Perrone, Tom Schwenk, Steve Steffen
Early and Late Binding Models
When you use jCOM to enable a COM client to access your Java objects, it is jCOM's job to make sure that your Java objects look exactly like any other COM component to that client. Remember: One of the main goals here is transparency.
To that end, you'll choose between an early- or late-bound method of object binding directly in support of COM's early and late binding models.
From a COM perspective, when a client program initiates a call to a COM component, the methods and properties of the component referred to by the calling program must be verified to see whether they actually exist and have been specified correctly. This process is known as binding. The verification itself can occur in one of two ways. One approach ...
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