[ale] OT: Component Building

[Joseph A Knapka]

Greg wrote:
> 
>         Well, first of all I don't think I understand the question. COM or COM+
> (starting with MS 2000) is run only on Microsoft OS's. IT IS PROPRIETARY.

True, but M$ has licensed selected vendors to develop DCOM
for Unix, and is "cooperating" with those efforts. I know
of no successful application deployments built atop
DCOM on Unix, but it's supposedly possible. I believe
Mainsoft <URL: http://www.mainsoft.com> was a player
in that field. Also, it seems Microsoft has made the
source code for the non-Windows platforms available,
though not as free software.

The DCOM protocol is reasonably well-documented. An
open-source DCOM implementation might not exactly rock
hard, but it might achieve the rockage of, say, a
Neil Diamond or a Barry Manilow. Though probably not
the market penetration.

Cheers,

-- Joe

> The lawsuit between MS and Sun stopped MS's poaching on Java.  I think that
> there is a mod to run FrontPage extensions on Apache, but that's as far as
> it goes.  MS has repeatedly stayed away from getting too close to any *nix,
> saying that is is "viral" in nature, which it is.. the GPL would force MS to
> give up source code (of course MS will steal anything else not nailed down
> <cough> mozilla <cough> kerberos).  So the answer is I guess "nothing".
> 
>         If you are talking about multi-tiered stuff, then yes, Java does that, as
> well as using CGI (ack spht) which would allow you to build (I guess you
> could call them components) stuff in pick-a-language. Or are you talking
> about CORBA perchance ?
> 
> Greg Canter
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin O'Neill Stoll [mailto:kevinostoll at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:30 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] OT: Component Building
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> >     Aside from Java what languages are at a programmers disposal
> > to develop
> > Distributed COM objects in an Unix environment.
> >
> >     I realize this isn't much to go on but I don't want to stifle the
> > creativity of responses that I receive.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Kevin O'Neill Stoll
> > http://kevinstoll.org/
> > (770) 569-7251
> >
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