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title: "What advantages have Web services over Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)?"  
description: "What advantages have Web services over Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-08-26  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2043/what-advantages-have-web-services-over-component-object-model-com-and-distributed-component-object-model-dcom  
category: "wcf"  
tags: ["wcf"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What advantages have Web services over Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)?

The advantages of Web services over COM and DCOM are as follows:

Web services are simple to use and can be implemented on varied platforms.

Web services are loosely coupled; as a result, their interfaces and methods can be extended.

Web services do not carry any state information with them so that multiple requests can be processed simultaneously.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

The advantages of Web services over COM and DCOM are as follows:

Web services are simple to use and can be implemented on varied platforms.

Web services are loosely coupled; as a result, their interfaces and methods can be extended.

Web services do not carry any state information with them so that multiple requests can be processed simultaneously.


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