Component based software development has become an active practice in industry and in research community. Many different component systems have been developed such as CORBA [7], DCOM [5], COM [2] etc., each of which describes its own object model. It is important to integrate components belonging to different systems in an intuitive manner. Recently, many researchers address this problem in several different ways [ 1,3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. Object Management Group (OMG) has also come up with a new standard for a general Meta Object Facility (MOF) [6] which aims at unifying object models of different component based systems. In this paper, we outline an approach for mapping of COM Object Model onto MOF. We have proposed an architecture so that MOF compliant clients can create and manipulate COM objects. Our architecture is based on Wrapper technology and relies heavily on introspective capabilities of COM. The contribution of this paper is four-fold. First, it provides a mapping between COM and MOF models. Second, the paper provides a software architecture for COM Wrapper. Third, the approach outlined, may always be extended for any data repositories enabling a much-desired unification of components in general. Fourth, many services may be plugged in the framework to enhance its performance and capabilities. We have also implemented the wrapper and the implementation of the entire framework is under progress.
