Chapter 43. Microsoft Transaction Server

by Paul Bertucci

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • MTS Overview

  • Building an MTS Component

  • Installing an MTS Component

  • Configuring Security

  • Running an MTS Application

  • Using Database Connection Pooling

Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) is an important foundation of the Microsoft server offerings. MTS is intended to simplify the development and deployment of multitiered applications built using Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) technologies. This is what Enterprise Java Beans (EJB and J2EE) set out to do.

MTS has truly evolved into an architecture, rather than just a transaction server. The name MTS is really a mislabeling of what comes with this feature. As MTS is integrated deeper into COM+ in the future, MTS will probably ...

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