COM and DCOM: Micrsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects

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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