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.
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System Object Model on OS/2 Warp 4.5x is composed by the following files:
Name | Comments |
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SOM.DLL | SOM Run-time Library. |
SOM.IR | SOM Implementation Repository. 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 Event Manager. |
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 | Collection Class Library. |
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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.