Creating COM+ Applications

With all the knowledge of individual COM+ features under your belt, now is a good time to learn more about creating applications that leverage COM+ features such as transactions, lifetime management, and shared resources.

The Goal: Scale

The magic word of system design these days is scalability. With the hyper-growth of the Internet (intranets, extranet, and all other things net), the consolidation of corporate data into centrally-located data stores, and the need for everyone and their cousin to get at the data, it's absolutely crucial that systems be able to scale to ever larger numbers of concurrent users. It's definitely a challenge, especially considering the rather unforgiving limitations we must deal with, such ...

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