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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.

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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
SOMDCLS.TOC
SOMDD.EXE DSOM daemon. It must be started prior to running a DSOM application.
SOMDIMPL.DAT
SOMDIMPL.TOC
SOMDSVR.EXE Generic DSOM server program.
SOMEM.DLL SOM emitter library.
SOMIR.DLL
SOMK.MSG
SOMS.DLL SOM Sockets - soms library.
SOMSEC.DLL SOM Security library.
SOMTC.DLL
SOMU.DLL
SOMUC.DLL

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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.

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