Analog of COM programming in Linux/UNIX

Question

The Component Object Model (COM) is (or was...) the way in Windows to provide language-neutral software components.

Is there any programming model in Linux/UNIX with the same philosophy of code reuse through binary components?

Answer 1

Sun RPC was supposed to be that. Then there was CORBA. Then GNOME Bonobo and KDE DCOP. Now it looks like D-Bus is latest fashion.

Answer 2

On Linux, DBus is currently in the process of becoming the de-facto higher-level standard.