Applying COM+ (New Riders Landmark) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

An in-depth perspective on the older COM and the new COM+ helps sets this text apart. The author is an expert on recent Microsoft technologies, and the book offers plenty of detailed insight into how the new COM+ works with higher-end, enterprise-level standards, like distributed transactions, queued components and compensating resource managers (CRMs). A superb explanation of the differences between apartment models used in COM+ components follows a basic tour of COM. Core COM concepts like late binding and automation are also explained. Examples in both C++ and VB (and sometimes Java/Visual J++) illustrate essential concepts.

Though clearly aimed at the more experienced developer, the book doesn't skimp on the specifics of working with Microsoft tools, and it has plenty of screen shots that illustrate the text. The emphasis on new tools also helps makes it a strong choice for anyone coming to COM+ from a background in the older COM standard. The author shows you how to make use of essential COM+ features like transactions and asynchronous message processing through message queue services. There's full coverage of the new publish-subscribe event model in COM+, along with event filtering. The book closes with an expert's-eye view of the much-improved security model in Windows 2000, plus techniques that will allow your components to work in a secure enterprise setting.

The bottom line is that any expert will want to take a look at this book when figuring out how to write scaleable, high-end components on the Microsoft Windows platform. With plenty of expertise on display, backed with a hands-on perspective of the current generation of Microsoft tools, this title strikes an appealing balance between the theory and practice of COM+. It can help you write better enterprise applications on Windows 2000. --Richard Dragan

Product Description

COM+ is Microsoft¿s new version of its COM object-oriented programming framework. Built into Windows 2000, this is an extremely powerful and complex technology that consolidates the features of a number of existing Microsoft tools: OLE, ActiveX, DCOM, Microsoft Message Queue, and Microsoft Transaction Server. By pulling all of these disparate services into one unified technology, COM+ hold the promise of greater efficiency and more diverse capabilities for developers who are creating applications - either enterprise or commercial software -- to run on a Windows 2000 system. The demand for reliable and real-world application-based information on COM+ is huge, and so far greatly exceeds the availability of such documentation. This book will provide a coherent, unified view of the COM+ architecture.

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