Summary

COM+ is a powerful addition to the COM family of technologies. By adding services such as lifetime management, transaction support, security, and transactions to COM objects without requiring significant changes to existing source code, Microsoft has leveraged COM into a more scalable technology, suitable for large-scale distributed development. This chapter took you through a tour of the basics of COM+ and on to the specifics of Delphi's support for COM+ and how to create COM+ applications in Delphi. What's more, you've hopefully caught a few tips and tricks along the way for developing optimized and well-behaved COM+ components. COM+ packs a wallop out of the box by providing services such as lifetime management, transaction support, ...

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