Analog of COM programming in Linux/UNIX

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 throug开发者_如何学Goh binary components?

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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.

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

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The Evolution email client as part of GNOME uses CORBA. It uses ORBit which is a lightweight CORBA ORB.

http://projects.gnome.org/ORBit2/