Chapter 10. Distributed COM (DCOM)
Microsoft Distributed COM (DCOM) extends the Component Object Model (COM) to support communication among objects on different computers—on a LAN, a WAN, or even the Internet. With DCOM, your application can be distributed at locations that make the most sense to your customer and to the application. I wanted to cover DCOM at this point since the DCOM wire-protocol is based on DCE RPC. As we said in the previous chapter, DCE RPC defines a proven standard for converting in-memory data structures and parameters into network packets. COM and DCOM also borrow the notion of globally unique identifiers (GUIDS) from DCE RPC. GUIDs provide collision-free, unmanaged naming of objects and interfaces and are the basis ...
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