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| Component Object Model | Component Object Model (An object-based programming model designed to promote software interoperability; it allows two or more applications or components to easily cooperate with one another, even if they were written by different vendors, at different times, in different programming languages, or if they are running on different computers running different operating systems) |
| Component Object Model da CryptoAPI | CryptoAPI Component Object Model (A Microsoft ActiveX control that provides a Component Object Model (COM) interface to Microsoft CryptoAPI, which exposes a select set of CryptoAPI functions to application developers) |
| Distributed Component Object Model | Distributed Component Object Model (The version of Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) specification that stipulates how components communicate over Windows-based networks. It permits the distribution of different components for a single application across two or more networked computers, running an application distributed across a network so that the distribution of components is not apparent to the user, and remotely displaying an application. Because DCOM is language-neutral, any language that uses COM components can also produce DCOM applications) |