Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
by Matthew MacDonald
Chapter 9. COM+ (Component Services)
A core part of the Microsoft philosophy is that programmers should be able to concentrate on coding the business-specific logic for an application and not have to code the infrastructure for their distributed systems. COM+ extends this philosophy by providing prebuilt services for enterprise applications. It includes solutions such as object pooling, transactions, and role-based security so you don’t have to waste valuable time troubleshooting low-level problems and reinventing the wheel.
The name COM+ is a little confusing. Some programmers make the mistake of assuming that COM+ is an enhanced version of COM. Strictly speaking, this assumption isn’t correct. Both COM and Microsoft .NET are technologies designed ...
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