I have a "server" application that receives requests from a number of clients, runs SQL queries or calls remote COM+ objects and then returns the results (currently the queue uses folders and files to communicate but I am switching to IPSocket)

I want to avoid the "server" actioning one long query and ignoring the rest of the queue, I thought about either using "out of process" COM objects for each action in the queue or just calling an .EXE with a parameter EG. RUN /N action.exe /Query2 /Param1 /Param2

The COM object gives me a pointer to the application but I have had bad experience with DCOM, is COM going to work better? Am I over complicating things?

Any ideas or thought welcome!

Gary.