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Understanding COM+ (Developer Technology) [Paperback]

David S. Platt (Author)

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Series: Developer Technology | Publication Date: July 8, 1999

Offers an overview of COM+, its role in enterprise development, and the services it can provide for your components and clients. Softcover.

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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 easy-to-understand 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 in 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's 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, instead of optimizing 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 working on Windows, Understanding COM+ delivers a useful introduction to what's best in the new COM+ on Windows 2000. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Enterprise applications and COM+ overview, COM+ architecture and infrastructure, interception, COM+ components and catalogs, context and transactions, security, threading models and synchronization, 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).

Product Details

Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press (July 8, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735606668
ISBN-13: 978-0735606661
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,793,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated and useless, May 20, 2000

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This book contains lots of outdated information. In memory DB for example was removed from Windows 2000. It still is a large chapter in this book. Spend your money elsewhere

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4.0 out of 5 stars Theorectical discussion of COM+, June 30, 2000

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This is a good theorectical discussion of COM+. It is not practical at all and is not a programming manual. I suggest it to the architect and designer thinking about using this technology.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, August 19, 1999

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Very good first Book on COM+. Clears up a lot of misconceptions. However I am looking forward to "Essential COM+" or "Inside COM+".

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2.0 out of 5 stars Management Only
EXTREMELY basic. Not worth your time if you are actually going to be programming. 100,000ft view of COM+ if it even got that low.

Published on September 27, 2003 by Adam DiCaprio

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
I began to appreciate the book once I downloaded the samples and debugged them on Dev Studio. This book is for someone who already has a lot of experience in COM, but wants to get... Read more

Published on July 8, 2002 by Alexei Isac

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for manager but not for serious COM+ developers
This book provides good overview of what COM+ is although some of topics are out of date, such as IMDB. Read more

Published on March 31, 2000

1.0 out of 5 stars Why?
I understand COM+ just fine. I just don't understand why you would buy this book. You could extract the same info from the MSDN and the Windows 2K support site... Read more

Published on March 16, 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Basic - Better Help file
I agree with the previous review. However, the reviewer is much more graceful than I am to give it 4 stars. I read Mr. Read more

Published on January 5, 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but more books needed
This book is very helpful to anyone who understands COM but are confused by the vast array of new services offered by COM+. This is the first book they should read. Read more

Published on December 28, 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't expect much in 230 pages
This book provides an excellent overview of some of the services provided by COM+. Unfortunately, it does not go into enough depth to write applications that take advantages of... Read more

Published on December 15, 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars COM+ doesn't have IMDB and Load Balancing
This book is written nicely. The only problem is that it describes imaginary features that do not exist today like In Memory Database and Load Balancing. Read more

Published on November 16, 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
I wholeheartedly endorse this book; I read the whole thing and was interested the whole time. Good job.

Published on September 21, 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 August 9, 1999 by James C. Blasius (dopey@entera...

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