How can an application running on a non-Windows platform utilize the generalInvoiceResponse module?

Friday, 11 August 2005

It is not possible to do that. The generalInvoiceResponse module is a plug-in component based on the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) architecture. The infrastructure required by the module is not present in MacOS or Unix.

In principle, the module could run on a Windows 2000 or Windows NT machine, and could provide services to a remote client via the DCOM protocol. At this stage, however, we are unaware of any third-party DCOM libraries for non-Windows platforms. In the absence of such libraries, the only remaining solution would be for an applications developer to implement custom built DCOM-compliant RPC procedures. We have no plans to provide these.