BPM COM Bridge is a Windows application that acts as a bridge between Oracle BPM applications and COM. Oracle BPM supplies this application to provide all the necessary services to catalog and use COM components.
BPM COM Bridge is packaged as a separate application and runs as a standalone Windows process. The Bridge should be installed on the machine where the COM components reside. However, this is not absolutely necessary for all components because DCOM (Distributed COM) components, if properly configured, can be located in a different machine from the one that is running COM Bridge.
On runtime, Oracle BPM connects to the COM Bridge through a TCP port (by default 4042). Therefore, the Oracle BPM Process Execution Engine can run in a different host environment from the one where COM Bridge is running (e.g., your BPM Engine may reside on a Solaris box and leverage COM components running on a separate Windows server).
| combridge.exe | This program is installed with Studio and runs automatically when required. It is intended for the development stage of a project. |
| combsvc.exe | Is the Windows service version of BPM COM Bridge. It is intended for production environments, where no GUI interaction is required with the COM components or applications that are being automated. After installation, it will start whenever the machine starts. |