[Zope] RE: COMObject Thoughts

[Brad Clements]

On 18 May 99, at 18:33, Amos Latteier wrote:

> Thanks for this warning. I'm definitely out of my league here. These are
> the sort of issues I was hoping others would be able to provide more
> guidance on. I don't really understand the relative trade off of not
> caching versus using free-threading...

I'm still trying visualize how COM objects would fit best within Zope.

I'm not sure that caching is the 'best way to go', unless the caching was 
on a per-client basis, or shared only if specifically configured that way.

How do cached com objects time out? How exactly is caching 
supposed to work?


As far as CoInitialize in each thread, I was wondering if that was part of 
the problem we had, but I see also the threading model is an issue. 

Although I can call ActiveX components from an interactive python, they 
die in Zope as pointed out previously.


> I agree about the security problem. I'm not familiar with the
> IObjectSafety interface, however.

Is this a COM+ thing?

> 
> I gotta get that Python/COM book ;-)

Is there really a book?



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