Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation
by Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria, Amit Bahree, Nishith Pathak
Why Integrate with COM+?
Although the future of the Windows platform seems to be a managed world, COM+ will still be around. COM exists in the core Windows platform[] but most important also in the billions of lines of code that independent software developers have written to produce solutions. A great number of solutions have been built on COM+ by enterprises that have also spent billions of their dollars. So, clearly WCF needs to work with legacy implementations in order to justify an investment in extending existing applications.
[] In addition to the Win32 API that has gone legacy—but still exists and matures
Few applications built today are completely stand-alone. In fact, the terms application and solution need a little definition. Generally, ...
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