Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation
by Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria, Amit Bahree, Nishith Pathak
Integrating with COM+
This chapter is about working with the past. That past is based upon component technology created by Microsoft to provide, at first, a desktop-oriented protocol for reusing application logic. That technology expanded into a distributed technology that helped better position Microsoft in the enterprise and provide a challenge to competing technologies.
Not without faults, numerous applications were developed based upon this component technology. As a result, we can't forget the amount of investment by enterprises in this technology. It would damage Microsoft's credibility and the marketability if Microsoft introduced a new technology that would force an enterprise to scrap its original investments. Therefore, Microsoft and ...
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