COM protocol

The Component Object Model (COM) interface allows programmers and system integrators to build applications to command the

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Server and read information from the server. The COM interface builds on the set of data items and execute commands in the server API. The COM interface allows

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and C/C++ programmers to use COM or Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) as the inter-process communications protocol. Additionally, this interface allows a synchronous programming model.

The typical

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Server and

BatchRemote

objects user is a

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programmer either writing a custom

Visual Basic

program or using a scripting language embedded within a third-party application.