Friday, October 14, 2005

Corillian's Product is a "Coponent Container"

Corillian's product is a "Coponent Container"

Component Containers are EXEs that hosts DLLs(components).

W3WP.EXE - The IIS worker process that handels requests for web sites and applications within a n application pool.

ASPNET_WP.EXE - This process handels the makority of the processing required by ASP.Net applications.

DLLHOST.EXE - As its name implies this process acts as a container(host) for an DLLs that need to be loaded.

SVCHOST.EXE - The Microsoft service host process hosts services that are executed from with DLLs.

RUNDLL32.EXE - This process allows for the execution of DLLs.