VDict mobile



architecture, library, microsoft (WOSA) One of the mainstays
of Microsoft Windows: the ethos of abstraction of core
For each extension, Windows Open Services Architecture
defines an API and an SPI, as well as a universal
interface (usually placed in a single DLL) that both comply
to.
These then transparently let the operating system speak to
entities.
These extensions include, among others, ODBC (called the
"crowning jewel of WOSA"), TAPI, WOSA/XFS, SAPI and
MAPI, and their supporting services, as well as the
abstraction of access to printers, modems, and networkingservices, which run identically over TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and
(2000-08-16)