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Glossary
ActiveX ActiveX is the name Microsoft has
given to a set of strategic, object-oriented
programming technologies and tools. The
main technology is the Component Object
Model (COM). Used in a network with a
directory and additional support, COM
becomes the Distributed Component Object
Model (DCOM). The main thing that you
create when writing a program to run in the
ActiveX environment is a component, which is
a self-sufficient program that can be run
anywhere in your ActiveX network (currently a
network consisting of Windows and Macintosh
systems). This component is known as an
ActiveX control. ActiveX is Microsoft's answer
to the Java technology from Sun
Microsystems. An ActiveX control is roughly
equivalent ...