ScriptCOM: An extension of COM for the dynamic adaptation

Abstract

The work presented in this paper is articulated around COM, a components model which represents the Microsoft standard for the development of reusable and communicating components. COM establishes a binary standard of writing of components and standardizes the communication between objects. However, it is not appropriate for the description of the applications to high availability like the banking applications, and the services of telecommunication which require an adaptation which must be carried out by disturbing the least possible application. We propose in this article ScriptCOM, a model of adaptable components COM. The originality of this model is to be extensible towards the model COM while respecting our needs. To validate our proposal, we used ScriptCOM for the development of a financial business application of a store of sale and maintenance of computer equipment.