Com+ and Financial Transactions

[Charles Behney <charlesaugust@theriver.com>]

http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0413/13com.html

PCWEEK has an effusive piece on COM+ features and Microsoft Transaction
Servers. Can anyone fill us non-programmers in on the basics of what COM
and these transactions servers represent in the strategic virtual
universe of Microsoft? What about the other architectures like CORBA and
the javabeans?

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> "I'm used to writing procedures, which is what you're taught in C and
>               carry forward with C++. [COM+] is different," said Craig Andera, a
>               systems programmer at GMAC-RCF, in Bloomington, Minn.
>
>               "The more you learn, the more you realize that [Microsoft] may have a
>               better way," Andera added. "But it will take time to get people to come
>               around to look at how this could be easier."
>
>               Microsoft likely will release the beta of COM+ 1.0 concurrently with
>               Windows NT 5.0 Beta 2, which is due by the end of this quarter.
>               Microsoft may include a software development kit with the COM+
>               beta, sources said.
>
>               Microsoft plans to provide in-depth previews of both COM+ and NT
>               5.0 at its TechEd Developers Conference in New Orleans during the
>               first week of June.
>
>               The Redmond, Wash., company is casting COM+ as a component
>               services architecture featuring event, queuing, security and
>               load-balancing services, along with an attribute-based programming
>               model.
>
>               All of the services are activated by "interceptors" that monitor
>               components and determine what services are required.
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CAB