WWC file mode, which is what most people use, does require SRVANY. Yes, COM will fire up servers automatically, that's why mtdlls are so good. Only, mtdlls are better since they're starting threads, not processes.
I went down the system Service route way back and decided it was a hack, especially when mtdlls came out.
>Hi Claude,
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>> while AFP,WWC, and Foxweb all have multiple servers running in the background and typically have to be started manually.
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>AFP 3.0 comes with a true Windows service (written in C++, BTW) and runs just fine on any machine without anyone being logged on. We do not rely on any work around like using SRVANY.EXE.
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>WWC uses a COM server that is automatically started by the ISAPI extension. It doesn't require any server to be launched manually, either.