COM+ Unleashed

COM+ Scalability Features

COM+ supplies several key features that greatly enhance the scalability of component services. Each of these features attempts to reduce internal server overhead in a way transparent to external client applications. To a client, a COM+ component looks just like a standard COM component.

One of the keys to highly scalable applications is effective resource management. Applications that create all the resources they need, but no more, have a reduced memory footprint and can support exceedingly large numbers of clients as long as all the clients are not active concurrently.

Another valuable technique is that of limiting the frequency with which resources are set up and torn down. Reusing previously allocated resources ...