Answers to Chapter 14

1. "What do the initials "COM" stand for" Component Object Model.

2. "Both COM and Java are available on Windows: true or false" True.

3. "What is the name given to the technology that allows remote COM invocation" Distributed COM, or DCOM.

4. "Java code executed directly with PHP is slower than Java code compiled as a class: true or false" True. When Java compiles its code it can perform optimisations that may not be possible when called through PHP.

5. "What is the number of the JSR specification that proposes to provide stronger links between PHP and Java" A hard question! The answer is 223 - don't fret if you don't know it!

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