Building Java™ Enterprise Systems with J2EE™

Chapter 18. DCOM Communications

IN THIS CHAPTER

• DCOM in the Machine

• DCOM Interfaces

• DCOM Identifiers

• DCOM Types

• DCOM Servers and Skeletons

• DCOM Server Registration

• DCOM Clients and Stubs

• DCOM Client Registration and Spawning

• DCOM Bridging

This chapter describes how to enable your distributed applications using Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). You may one day encounter the need to build either a DCOM client or a DCOM server in the course of your enterprise development endeavors. Using Java to build such DCOM clients and servers is now a possibility with a suite of tools created by Microsoft. Of course, all of this DCOM-enabling is at the expense of binding you to the Microsoft platform and to Microsoft-based development products. Certain ...