ALSO CALLED: Component Object Model, Object Linking and Embedding, and OLE DEFINITION: COM+ is an extension of Component Object Model (COM), Microsoft's strategic building block approach for developing application programs. COM+ is both an object-oriented programmingarchitecture and a set of operating system services. It adds to COM a new set of
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This paper is a statement by the OMG Architecture Board (AB) of the expanded vision necessary to support interoperability with specifications that address integration through the entire systems life cycle.
COM DEFINITION (continued): system services for application components while they are running, such as notifying them of significant events or ensuring they are authorized to run. COM+ is intended to provide a model that makes it relatively easy to create business applications that work well with the Microsoft Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) in a Windows NT or subsequent system. It is viewed as Microsoft's answer to the Sun Microsystems-IBM-Oracle approach known as Enterprise JavaBeans COM definition sponsored by SearchWinIT.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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