- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (1 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0735606668
- ISBN-13: 978-0735606661
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 17.3 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,113,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written for the IS manager or developer, Understanding COM+ explains the details of the emerging Windows 2000 COM+ standard and the real advantages it provides for enterprise computing. Clearly written and illustrated with easily understood diagrams, this title succeeds in explaining the fairly difficult "plumbing" of COM+ and its impact for the future of businesses running on the Microsoft platform.
Though it provides a good deal of technical detail, the standout feature of this book is its focus on real-world business problems on the enterprise and the solutions offered by COM+. Any IS manager or developer will be able to understand concepts like transactions, resource management, events, and asynchronous communications through the author's carefully rendered diagrams and business scenarios. There is not much actual code here, but the author does suggest techniques for designing components to take advantage of COM+.
Standout material includes a full discussion of the built-in support for transactions in COM+ and a new feature that has real potential for better performance for today's Web sites: In-Memory Databases (IMDBs). (With IMDBs, insteading of optimising code, administrators can just add more RAM to the server for a real performance boost.)
As the author notes, COM+ builds on the success of COM on the Microsoft platform. For any IS manager or programmer who works on Windows, Understanding COM+ delivers a useful introduction to what's best in the new COM+ on Windows 2000. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com
Topics covered: Enterprise applications and COM+ overview, COM+ architecture and infrastructure, interception, COM+ components and catalogs, context and transactions, security, threading models and synchronisation, resource management, Just- In-Time (JIT) object activation, object pooling, queued components (QC) and asynchronous communications, queue moniker, COM+ events: publishers and subscribers, COM+ In- Memory Databases (IMDBs), and load balancing.
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A guide for professional developers and technical manangers showcases COM+'s application scalability, enhanced flexibility, and simplified programming.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with many books of this nature, Understanding COM+ is truly geared to a breed of developer/analyst interested in learning about the strategic, rather than the physical implementation of Microsofts COM+ technology. A Prior knowledge of Microsoft Tranaction Server, and COM under Windows NT v4.0 would be advisable, however, the information is provided here - if you have the patients & resolve to re-read certain early passages 2 or 3 times.
The subject matter is by nature rather an obscure one which the book acknowledges, but strives to draw comparisons between itself and and its ancestory with a good degree of success; dealing with the underlying concepts in a comprehensive and tangiable fashion.
Microsoft Press are producing books like this more readily nowdays, as their underpinning technologies become more abstract from the user / developer. Keeping this in mind is important, because those hoping to find reams of C++, Visual J++ or Visual Basic code / examples will be disappointed (these are found on the books website references).
To fully exploit the potential this subject matter provides, I recomend viewing "Designing for Scalability with Microsoft Windows DNA" isbn: 0-7356-0968-3, as this book also complements a knowledge of COM+ and deals with one of COM+'s strongest fields - Distributed Application Development.
I have found this book most useful in the context of of a developer migrating from NT 4.0 to NT v5.0 (Windows 2000).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Very similiar in scope and tone to David Chappell's classic "Understanding ActiveX and Ole"
Explains the evolution of COM+ from COM/DCOM plus MTS and MSMQ, finally integrated into the operating system (Windows 2000).
It is an entertaining, easy to read book, that even your manager should be able to understand. Its almost as good as listening to a Don Box lecture! Highly recommended!
Format:Paperback
An easy and informative read for anyone wishing to get acquainted with COM+. However, this book was published before the final decision was made on what features would be included in COM+ in the release of W2000. Consequently, much of the information is out of date.
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Excellent High level summary
Great High level summary of COM+, has a few items which are out of date such as the In Memory DataBase, but you could not get a better book introducing the technology
Published on 12 May 2000
Capture high level understand perfectly
Having used DCOM/MTS for a while, I need and high level understanding of how Microsoft integrated the two into Windows 2000. This book achieved this for me, and lots more. Read more
Published on 5 April 2000 by j_w_holland@hotmail.com
Great overview
Enables exactly what it puts on the cover 'Understanding COM+'. An excellent overview, I can't wait for this technology to roll out so I can start using it.
Published on 7 Sep 1999
A must read for all developer and "Managers"
This book is very well written and is easy to understand, it covers all you need to know before you get your hands dirty in the COM+ world. The autors humor is also very lively.
Published on 3 Sep 1999
Informative, easy to understand, great writing style
I needed to quickly find out what COM+ was all about and this book was perfect at helping me to do just that. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 1999
Good Book
Very good first Book on COM+. Clears up a lot of misconceptions. However I am looking forward to "Essential COM+" or "Inside COM+".
Published on 19 Aug 1999
A good overview of COM+, and cheap, too!
In a world of 700 page books, Platt's overview is refreshingly concise (as are his other books). I'm easily bored but made it through almost the whole book except for COM+... Read more
Published on 9 Aug 1999
Good overview for COM+
This book is very well written and is easy to understand (even for a non-technical person). The author have explained the essential principles and concepts about COM+. Read more
Published on 5 Aug 1999
great little book!
This book presents the new features of COM+ in an extremely intelligent and sometimes very humorous way. Read more
Published on 26 July 1999
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