> I had heard about COM in Win8. > > Is it still being promoted as a development target? It's been tolerated in > .Net > for ages but always prefaced with phrases like "legacy technology." > COM's main drawback is that it has not caught on outside of Microsoft. For > those of us interested in portable programming that's a big negative.
Well well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3957049/what-is-xpcom-xpcom-vs-com http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom/index.html COM, as a paradigm, lives and thrives. -- Stefano { "Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them." --- P. J. O'Rourke } ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
