Troubleshooting

This chapter has shown you how to upgrade existing applications to use SOAP. In many cases, you won’t convert the application completely; you’ll add SOAP as a new feature to the existing application. Even if you do convert the application completely, you can still make use of the code you already have in place and upgrade the techniques you use to perform tasks such as handling errors. The following sections contain some of the questions that developers seem to have about upgrading their current applications (based on newsgroup and list server input).

Which DCOM applications are the best candidates for conversion?

This is one of the harder questions developers have to answer because it depends on many factors. Sometimes the determining ...

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