Article:		Component Object Model (COM) Development on Mac OS X
Subject:		Relic from NeXT?
Date:		2004-04-17 20:29:17
From:		kbixler
Is the COM support a leftover from Distributed OLE stuff in OpenStep? Check out http://web.archive.org/web/19970616182601/www.next.com/OPENSTEP/Products/DOLE/DOLE_DataSheet.html for more info.

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• Relic from NeXT?
  2004-04-17 21:02:23  ChristopherHunt [View]
  
  
  My feeling is that Core Foundation's COM is more recent and is there to support the Core Foundation Plug-Ins only. The Core Foundation COM support is pretty basic. I'd imagine that you'd have been given much more with D'OLE's COM e.g. CoCreateInstance and an API naming scheme much more in line with Microsoft.