This page was last modified 06:18, 27 June 2007.
Talk:How to build a COM object on Symbian OS
From Forum Nokia Wiki
I'm not clear how COM on Symbian OS actually works. QueryInterface() implementation is unclear, given that Symbian OS doesn't support dynamic_cast (except on the very latest version, and this is pre-v9 code since E32Dll() is shown). Isn't that needed?
The CSomeObject class is not a proper Symbian C class (unless the interface derives from CBase) and it's not obvious how any of it is used.
I suggest this item be extended with more example code and a discussion of how each part works on Symbian OS. I agree that it could be of much interest to Windows programmers migrating to Symbian OS, but the idioms on Symbian OS don't make for an easy port of straight COM code (believe me, I've tried). More detail is required, otherwise the potential for bad code is huge.
Although not a direct equivalent, I think it also worth mentioning that Symbian has it's own interface definition, plug-in loading and identification scheme, known as ECOM. It's not the same, but is pretty much de facto.
I think this has the potential to be a really useful article, and it's a good start, but it's not really Symbian-specific to be useful yet (at least, not to me, and I've worked with COM and Symbian, and am lucky to know a bit about both).
