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Ashish
Ashish

Reputation: 8529

Difference between COM and DCOM?

What is the difference between COM and DCOM ?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 6850

Answers (3)

sankar
sankar

Reputation: 82

COM stands for Component Object Model.
DCOM stands for Distributed Component Object Model.

COM is set of component tools which are executed client side.
DCOM is a Distributed component object model runs at the given server.
COM requires installation on the machine from where it is being used.
DCOM requires installation somewhere on the same network.

Upvotes: 0

Loxley
Loxley

Reputation: 1781

DCOM=Distributed Component Object Model, you might call it COM via RPC. DCOM – Wikipedia

Upvotes: 2

Jerry Coffin
Jerry Coffin

Reputation: 490008

DCOM stands for "Distributed COM". That means the client and server can be on different machines communicating across the network, instead of both being on the same machine as in conventional COM.

Upvotes: 11

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