COM+ Unleashed

Declarative COM+ Security

It is possible to take a bunch of components that are completely bereft of security and package them into a highly secure program. This is what declarative security is all about, configuring security on components and interfaces through the Component Management Console.

Declarative security is performed via the COM+ catalog (using the Component Services Administrator). COM+ security can also be defined programmatically. However, dealing with the definition of the activation and access control, you typically want to define this at a higher level than a single component for several reasons. First, you want to set up a security environment that COM+ could handle automatically for you. Second, it greatly reduces the amount ...