Interoperation Between COM+ and Web Services
If you are using any of the Windows XP family of operating systems, which includes XP Professional or Windows .NET Server, you can expose an existing COM+ application as an XML Web service by clicking a single checkbox. This effectively allows you to substitute the SOAP protocol for the DCOM protocol. Microsoft calls this feature COM+ Web services. Although this functionality exposes an XML Web service, it actually uses the .NET remoting infrastructure. The best part about this functionality is that you can use it from either a .NET client or an unmanaged client.
Exposing a COM+ Application as an XML Web Service
I'll walk through a quick example to show you how to expose a COM+ application as an COM+ ...
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