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System Object Model

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System Object Model (SOM) is an object-oriented shared library system. DSOM, a distributed version based on CORBA, allowed objects on different computers to communicate.

Documentation

Files

System Object Model on OS/2 Warp 4.5x is composed by the following files:

Name Comments
SOM.DLL SOM Run-time Library.
SOM.IR Types, classes, and methods provided by the SOMobjects Framework.
SOMD.DLL Distributed SOM (DSOM).
SOMD.MSG Messages for SOMD.DLL.
SOMDCLS.DAT Distributed SOM class database.
SOMDCLS.TOC Distributed SOM class index.
SOMDD.EXE DSOM daemon. It must be started prior to running a DSOM application.
SOMDIMPL.DAT Distributed SOM implementation database.
SOMDIMPL.TOC Distributed SOM implementation index.
SOMDSVR.EXE Generic DSOM server program.
SOMEM.DLL SOM emitter library.
SOMIR.DLL CORBA Interface Repository support.
SOMK.MSG SOM error messages file.
SOMS.DLL SOM Sockets - soms library.
SOMSEC.DLL SOM Security library.
SOMTC.DLL CORBA TypeCode support.
SOMU.DLL SOM Utilities - somu library.
SOMUC.DLL Utility Class Library.

Articles

Replacement

  • somFree is a Portable implementation of SOM, but it hasn't been ported to OS/2-eCS. It is open source under the LGPL v3.
  • NOM (Netlabs Object Model) was an implementation of SOM that was going to be part of Voyager, but it never got finished.

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