JIT Activation
In an enterprise system, a user-driven client application often creates an object, makes a method call, and holds on to the object to use it later. The time between calls can vary from seconds to minutes or even hours. Meanwhile, on the server side, the object continues to stay alive, potentially tying up expensive resources. Imagine the resource-sharing problem that would arise if 100 or more clients locked access to the resources that they weren't even using.
JIT activation is a mechanism provided by COM+ to manage the lifetime of an object more efficiently. The idea is very simple: The actual object is activated just prior to the first call made on it and is deactivated immediately after finishing its work.
For now, assume object ...
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