From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: Plugins/Dynamic Libraries
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:38:14 -0500
Date: 2004-11-13T22:38:14-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2004111322381416807%david@bottoncom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 41948730$0$9747$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be
On 2004-11-12 04:53:03 -0500, Adrien Plisson
<aplisson-news@stochastique.net> said:
>
> you're right, COM is not equivalent to corba, but DCOM is. but i would
> not say COM are preferable to dll most of the time. COM adds some
> (somewhat big) overhead which may not be interresting.
Actually it is very light, in particular if your are doing inproc.
>
>
> you will say that this is exactly what COM does for you, but
> unfortunately, you cannot strip down COM to remove what is not
> interesting for your particular project. the worst thing to do is
> trying to use the ATL (Active Template Library from Microsoft) to code
> simple COM objects: ATL suffers from a bad design which stopped me most
> of the time.
That is why I write my COM in straight C++ or Ada and do not use ATL or
MFC for COM. It is actually simple and fairly lightweight once you get
to its heart.
David Botton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-14 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-10 20:46 Plugins/Dynamic Libraries Andrew W
2004-11-11 8:28 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-11 10:49 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-11-11 12:42 ` Frank Piron
2004-11-11 13:59 ` Martin Krischik
2004-11-11 16:16 ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-12 0:00 ` David Botton
2004-11-12 18:17 ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-11 10:34 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-11-12 0:12 ` David Botton
2004-11-12 9:53 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-11-14 3:38 ` David Botton [this message]
2004-12-04 14:27 ` Lionel Draghi
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