Re: COM callback architecture question
<markscottwright@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1185800416.622245.223370@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com
What do COM callbacks look like "underneath"?
Just a COM interface. There's nothing special about the callback, the
term simply refers to how an interface is used.
Is there a separate
thread created that waits for messages from the server?
A client may or may not choose to do it this way. COM doesn't require
nor prohibit it.
If I do something like this:
ISink pSink = ...;
IOutOfProcessServer pServer = ...;
pServer->Advise(pSink);
pServer->DoSomething();
while (TRUE)
;
assuming that pServer starts up a separate thread to do the work and
returns immediately, will pSink ever receive any callbacks from that
server?
That depends on which COM apartment the sink object lives in. For more
details, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q150777/
Do I need a message pump somewhere on the client side for
callbacks to be processed?
You do if your sink lives in a single-threaded apartment.
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