COM and DCOM: Micrsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects [Paperback]

Roger Sessions (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 047119381X | ISBN-13: 978-0471193814 | Publication Date: October 16, 1997 | Edition: 1

An expert's unbiased appraisal of Microsoft's object technologies and how they can work for your enterprise

In COM and DCOM, internationally recognized object-technology expert Roger Sessions offers a lucid, unbiased appraisal of Microsoft's distributed objects strategy. Focusing on issues of crucial concern to both developers and managers, Sessions considers all of Microsoft's object technologies and explains the huge impact they are likely to have on the future of enterprise computing. Microsoft has targeted the mainframe market and this book explains exactly how they plan on doing it. Topics include:

• How Visual Basic, Java, COM and DCOM work together
• Creating highly efficient object pools
• Using the Microsoft Transaction Server, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Message Queue Server (Falcon) to develop unbelievably robust, multi-tier applications without mainframes
• Integrating legacy database systems into your system design
• Using Wolfpack to create highly available clusters of workstations that outperform mainframes at a fraction of their cost
• Security issues for components
• 10 Rules for distributed component programming
• Extensive program examples include complete Java, Visual Basic, IDL and batch files, and can be downloaded from our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

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From the Publisher

The straight scoop on Microsoft's distributed objects technologies. In the distributed objects world, Microsoft has had to defer to products such as CORBA, Netscape, and Java Beans. With COM and DCOM, Microsoft is poised to make a large dent in the enterprise market. This book teaches software developers the pros and cons of COM and DCOM. It explains how to use COM and DCOM with their existing systems, how they fit into two and three-tier client/server architectures, and new technologies from Microsoft such as Microsoft Transaction Server and Falcon.

About the Author

ROGER SESSIONS is a principal in ObjectWatch, Inc., a company specializing in distributed object technologies, including COM/DCOM, CORBA, and Java programming. He is an internationally recognized expert in distributed object applications. He is the author of three other books and dozens of articles, and has spoken at more conferences than he can count throughout the world. He was a lead architect for the CORBA Persistence Service and one of the technical leads for the IBM implementation of the CORBA Object Services.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 16, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047119381X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471193814
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,019,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Marketing Book, Not A Technical One..., January 11, 2000

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Tevfik AKTUGLU - See all my reviews

This review is from: COM and DCOM: Micrsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects (Paperback)

The book miraculously avoids going into technical stuff. So I would guess it was meant to be for managers, and dummy ones for that matter! I'm not here to say Microsoft does not have anything to offer; it sure does. But to get a handle on that, you will have to go somewhere else, e.g. on the technical side, books by Don BOX, as an introduction to COM 'Inside COM' by Dale ROGERSON, as an introduction to DCOM 'Inside DCOM' by Guy EDDON...

And for good measure, don't forget to listen to the other side of the story: read books on CORBA and JAVA, too!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not something I would recommend..., November 24, 2000

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This review is from: COM and DCOM: Micrsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects (Paperback)

The book has good information about using COM and Visual J++. However, using the chip on his shoulder and assuming the general public is not capable of comprehending COM and DCOM directly, Sessions viciously attacks technologies he doesn't like and over sugar coats the topic in a third grade like method using his gnome theme, making the first two chapters a brutal experience. Unless you are interested in learning more insite about Sessions himself, I don't recommend the book.

In a Session's-like summary, my brain, named Billy, working with my eys, Elen, and hands, Henry and Harry, attempted to interpret the speakings of the book, Bob. After a tremendous amount of negotiations between Billy and Elen, and numerous requests to Henry and Harry to ask Bob to back up and repeat himself, Elen and Billy finally got to the end of what Bob was attempting to say and agreed that Henry and Harry should issue a terminal close statement to Bob and find a new written topic object.

Sorry, but that's my impression.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Author's unfulfilled dream about "Microsoft's vision", March 16, 1998

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This review is from: COM and DCOM: Micrsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects (Paperback)

The author presents himself as a visionary who can tell Bill Gates where Microsoft is heading. However, the so called "Microsoft's vision" apparently seems to exist only in the author's mind. I tried to find any independent proof of the fact that Microsoft sees Java/DCOM/VB as its long-term strategy, but could not. In fact, Java still is a Microsoft's stepson, and not the loved one. VB is very different from Java and both are syntaxically very different from COM/DCOM. Hard to imagine how such trinity can constitute a solid framework for enterprise development. If this is a Microsoft's vision of the future this is a gloomy future. I also got tired of constantly translating from gnomish to human (substituting gnomes for objects, rooms for address space, etc.). I believe, gnome analogy is a good analogy and could help a beginner programmer - but the book is obviously not for beginners. For professionals, gnomes only obscure the subject, and professionals don't have extra time to read gnome stories and translate them into professional language. They prefer straight talk on the subject.