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Summary: Writing a COM+ application ? You _NEED_ this book!!
Review: If you're an architect or developer working on a COM+ application that needs to be scalable, you should read this book. If defines what scalability is, explains how COM+ applications should be written to achieve scalability, and explains in clear and concise detail, COM+ concepts such as apartments, contexts, activities and causality. A lot of people just don't get COM+. Whether this is due to the absolute trash that is written about COM+ in a lot of others books or MSDN, I don't know. You simply cannot stick all of your components into a COM+ application and expect it to scale. It just doesn't work like that. Even if you think you've got your design right, there are lots of hidden caveats to catch you out. You need to understand what COM+ does with your components, how it manages context, the cost of this management vs traditional non-configured components etc This book presents a clear picture of how to do things the right way. It starts at a nice high level, and drills down into more detail as the chapters fly past. Further more, it gives you a warm feeling that the author really has worked on real world applications, and not just written `play and experimental' applications. Other books have come close to this (the Richard Grimes and James Conard books sprint to mind) but this is the best to date. In Summary.... If you think you know COM+ inside out, read this book and see how your understanding of COM+ fits with what Tim has to say. I'm glad to say I fully agreed with nearly every word, and couldn't put the book down. I learnt a couple of things too, so I'll certainly be changing our applications in future releases. Thank you Tim.
Rating:
Summary: Writing a COM+ application ? You _NEED_ this book!!
Review: If you're an architect or developer working on a COM+ application that needs to be scalable, you should read this book. If defines what scalability is, explains how COM+ applications should be written to achieve scalability, and explains in clear and concise detail, COM+ concepts such as apartments, contexts, activities and causality. A lot of people just don't get COM+. Whether this is due to the absolute trash that is written about COM+ in a lot of others books or MSDN, I don't know. You simply cannot stick all of your components into a COM+ application and expect it to scale. It just doesn't work like that. Even if you think you've got your design right, there are lots of hidden caveats to catch you out. You need to understand what COM+ does with your components, how it manages context, the cost of this management vs traditional non-configured components etc This book presents a clear picture of how to do things the right way. It starts at a nice high level, and drills down into more detail as the chapters fly past. Further more, it gives you a warm feeling that the author really has worked on real world applications, and not just written 'play and experimental' applications. Other books have come close to this (the Richard Grimes and James Conard books sprint to mind) but this is the best to date. In Summary.... If you think you know COM+ inside out, read this book and see how your understanding of COM+ fits with what Tim has to say. I'm glad to say I fully agreed with nearly every word, and couldn't put the book down. I learnt a couple of things too, so I'll certainly be changing our applications in future releases. Thank you Tim.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: One of the great book. Every COM+ developers should keep a copy
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