COM Master's Heart Sutra

Author: Puxu
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: COM is an important middleware technology for object-oriented distributed application development. Based on the author's many years of practical development experience and insights in COM, 50 important principles have been summarized and categorized into 6 major classes. Additionally, the code in the book is provided through a website.
Preface
The evolution of the Component Object Model (COM) has in many ways paralleled the evolution of C++. Both movements shared a common goal of achieving better reuse and modularity through refinements to an existing programming model. In the case of C++, the preceding model was procedural programming in C, and C++'s added value was its support for class-based object-oriented programming. In the case of COM, the preceding model was class-based programming in C++, and COM's added value is its support for interface-based object-oriented programming.