ALSO CALLED: Distributed Component Object Model and Distributed COM DEFINITION: DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) is a set of Microsoft concepts and program interfaces in which client program objects can request services from server program objects on other computers in a network. DCOM is based on the Component Object Model
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DCOM DEFINITION (continued): … (COM), which provides a set of interfaces allowing clients and servers to communicate within the same computer (that is running Windows 95 or a later version).
For example, you can create a page for a Web site that contains a script or program that can be processed (before being sent to a requesting user) not on the Web site server but on another, more specialized server in the network. Using DCOM interfaces, the Web server site program (now acting as a client object) can forward … DCOM definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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