Developing Enterprise Applications with COM+

COM+ provides the foundation and major hope for Microsoft's object technology strategy. It allows Microsoft to connect its core products and technologies in a network, and has been developed by merging COM and DCOM to compete directly with CORBA and Enterprise JavaBeans. Microsoft is building all future products, including Windows 2000, on top of it, meaning that all programmers will have to become proficient in its use. This guide shows developers and programmers how COM+ works; how to use it to develop enterprise applications and covers basic and advanced topics, including XML, UML, SQL and many others, providing a detailed comparison of COM+, CORBA 3 and JavaBeans There is an accompanying CD which contains all working C++, Visual Basic and XML code from the book along with trial versions of different middleware tools