Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

10.6. Conclusion

DCOM makes it easy to write a distributed application, due to these major features:

• Scales from the smallest single computer environment to the biggest pool of server machines.

• Provides rich, symmetric communication between components.

• Can be robustly expanded to meet new functional requirements.

• Takes advantage of existing custom and off-the-shelf components.

• Can be efficiently deployed and administered.

• Can be used with any network protocol and integrated into any hardware platform.

• Can seamlessly take advantage of other Internet standards and protocols.

DCOM is the TCP/IP of objects.