COM and DCOM: Micrsoft′s Vision for Distributed Objects: Microsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects - Softcover

Sessions, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047119381X ISBN 13: 9780471193814

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Synopsis

In the distributed objects world, Microsoft has had to defer to products such as CORBA, Netscape, and Java Beans. With COM and DCOM, Microsoft is poised to make a large dent in the enterprise market. This book teaches software developers the pros and cons of COM and DCOM. It explains how to use COM and DCOM with their existing systems, how they fit into two and three–tier client/server architectures, and new technologies from Microsoft such as Microsoft Transaction Server and Falcon.

About this title

About the Author

ROGER SESSIONS is a principal in ObjectWatch, Inc., a company specializing in distributed object technologies, including COM/DCOM, CORBA, and Java programming. He is an internationally recognized expert in distributed object applications. He is the author of three other books and dozens of articles, and has spoken at more conferences than he can count throughout the world. He was a lead architect for the CORBA Persistence Service and one of the technical leads for the IBM implementation of the CORBA Object Services.

From the Back Cover

An expert′s unbiased appraisal of Microsoft′s object technologies and how they can work for your enterprise

In COM and DCOM, internationally recognized object–technology expert Roger Sessions offers a lucid, unbiased appraisal of Microsoft′s distributed objects strategy. Focusing on issues of crucial concern to both developers and managers, Sessions considers all of Microsoft′s object technologies and explains the huge impact they are likely to have on the future of enterprise computing. Microsoft has targeted the mainframe market and this book explains exactly how they plan on doing it. Topics include:

• How Visual Basic, Java, COM and DCOM work together
• Creating highly efficient object pools
• Using the Microsoft Transaction Server, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Message Queue Server (Falcon) to develop unbelievably robust, multi–tier applications without mainframes
• Integrating legacy database systems into your system design
• Using Wolfpack to create highly available clusters of workstations that outperform mainframes at a fraction of their cost
• Security issues for components
• 10 Rules for distributed component programming
• Extensive program examples include complete Java, Visual Basic, IDL and batch files, and can be downloaded from our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

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Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047119381X
• ISBN 13: 9780471193814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512