Stefan, On Thursday 19 February 2009, Stefan Koesling wrote: > I am wondering why com is used on Windows and xpcom on other OSs. Couldn't > xpcom also be used on Windows? > > I asked because VC++ Express Edition is not able to build the com > interfaces and I do not want to buy the full version of VC++.
I'm not a Windows expert but COM is the 'original' and XPCOM is an emulation of the original. AFAIK, COM on Windows is faster than XCOM on non-Windows hosts and COM has probably less bugs. And it would be a notable effort for us to port XPCOM to Windows which we would rather investigate to fix bugs and implement new features. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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