April 1999
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
15h 5m
English
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Chapter 5. Infrastructure
In this chapter:
While you can actually write complete, functioning server and client components from the material given in the previous chapters, you’ll find them very limited. In order to give you the bare bones, the following considerations have been ignored:
- Memory management
Some programs contain complicated, many-layered pointers as function arguments. These require special handling to send their data across a connection.
- Location transparency
Objects can locate anywhere in cyberspace. Location transparency allows a single programming model that allows clients anywhere to refer to distributed objects. In COM programming, you know this object reference as an interface pointer, which can be passed to any component in cyberspace.
- Multithreading
Multithreaded programming in COM is different from traditional multithreaded programming. To take advantage of multithreading, you need to learn an important concept called apartments.
- Security
You haven’t been shown how to restrict access to a service. Security can be configured by an administrator and can also be finely controlled through programming.
These are the sorts of supporting infrastructure that will be discussed in this chapter.
Figure 5-1. COM applications and apartments
Before we delve in to these discussions, we must introduce an important Distributed COM concept called apartments. ...
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