> Darren New wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> Um... OK. Maybe they have some documentation I can use...
>>
>> I think it's more like, now that you know what it is (namely, an API 
>> for communication between independent objects via an API-like 
>> interface), what's your actual question? :-)
> 
>  From Wikipedia's article, it seems that COM's idea of what the terms 
> "object", "class" and "method" mean is somewhat different from the usual 
> OO terminology. (Or Wikipedia is outright incorrect, which is of course 
> not impossible.) Can anybody clarify?

It is a bit different from normal OO terms. Just wait until you get to 
the "containment/delegation and aggregation" part (replaces uses of 
inheritance), that's really screwed up.

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