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[Cameron Laird]

In article <1177963548_23061 at sp12lax.superfeed.net>,
Roger Upole <rupole at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Cameron Laird wrote:
>> QOTW:  "That is just as feasible as passing a cruise ship through a phone
>> line." - Carsten Haese, on transporting a COM object across a network.
>> Less vividly but more formally, as he notes, "A COM object represents a
>> connection to a service or executable that is running on one computer.
>> Transferring that connection to another computer is impossible."
>>
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>While this is indeed a nice turn of phrase, in substance it's incorrect.
>You can marshal a live COM object and unmarshal it on a different
>machine.
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... but the *references* in that object are unlikely to be
meaningful on the second machine (or, in many cases, on the
original machine, if at a sufficiently later time).