Resource Management

One of the more expensive things in any application is creating and loading objects into memory. A key way in which COM+ can help make applications work more efficiently is through resource management. COM+ provides resource management through the services of Object Pooling, Just-in-Time activation and deactivation, and State Management. These services, together with the stateless programming model COM+ enforces, can give your application better overall scalability.

Object Pooling and Construction

Object Pooling is one of the features that COM+ promised, but on which VB developers were never able to capitalize. This was the result of VB's tight integration with COM and its capability to support only the apartment-threading ...

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