DCOM stands for Distributed Component Object Model. DCOM is a protocol that enables software components to communicate with each other reliably, securely and efficiently over a network.

DCOM is part of Windows and is installed during the installation of the operating system.

FlexPro requires DCOM if you wish to use the FPAccess interface or one of the other supported interfaces for data acquisition software based on it.

A typical DCOM application could therefore look like this:

FlexPro runs on one server and has a project database (C:\Databases\Data.fpd) open. One or more clients for their part open the same project database through a shared network folder (\\SERVER\Databases\Data.fpd) to write acquired data. The user on the server computer sees how the data is written into the project database and can immediately begin working with the data.

For DCOM to be used, it must first be configured. FlexPro must also be configured to use DCOM.

See Also

Configuring DCOM under Windows Vista