Customer Reviews

Understanding COM+ (Developer Technology)

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This book contains lots of outdated information.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

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.

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

I agree with the previous review. However, the reviewer is much more graceful than I am to give it 4 stars. I read Mr. Platt's previous book - The Essence of COM with ActiveX and I know he is capable of doing better than his latest one. I don't understand why would someone intentionally write a bad book. I also agree with the previous reviewer that there needs to be 2 books on COM+ one on VB and the other on VC. I suggest looking at Mastering COM/COM+ by Rofail/Shohoud, it covers both VB and VC++, it is actually a very good book on the subject. I have not reviewed it yet because I have not gone throw it all but, so far so good.

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!

This book presents the new features of COM+ in an extremely intelligent and sometimes very humorous way. Its focus is definitely not on the mechanics of the new components, but rather on their high-level purpose along with design and architectural issues. This allows the reader to gain perspective rapidly as the messy details are left to the Windows 2000 documentation.

Bits of brillient philosophical insight are included. Read the epilogue and you can justify your comfy six-figure salary.

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. However, this book is (intentionally) very incomplete, lacking any actual programming how-to.

I think 2 more books are needed for a healthy understanding of COM+. The next book should be an easy Visual Basic how-to guide, and the book after that should be a more hard core VC++ guide/reference book.

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+. If you want to learn and understand COM+, this book is your best choice. I suggest that the reader should read some other books or papers about COM and MTS before reading this book.

The style of writing is very graceful, so it is hard for me to translate it into Chinese.

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... I guess it saves you the mouse clicks

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. Why would anyone buy a book that is not connected to reality?