COM & .NET Component Services
COM & .NET Component Services By Juval Löwy
September 2001
Pages: 384

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 COM+ Component Services

    1. COM+ Component Services

    2. The Component Services Explorer

    3. Hello COM+

    4. COM+ Configured Components

    5. Applications, DLLs, and Components

    6. Configuring COM+ Applications

    7. Debugging COM+ Applications

    8. Deploying COM+ Applications

    9. Summary

  2. Chapter 2 COM+ Context

    1. Encapsulation via Marshaling in COM

    2. Encapsulation via Interception in COM+

    3. The Context Object

    4. The Call Object

    5. Cross-Context Manual Marshaling

    6. Summary

  3. Chapter 3 COM+ Instance Management

    1. Client Types

    2. Instance Management and Scaling

    3. Object Pooling

    4. Just-in-Time Activation

    5. Combining JITA with Object Pooling

    6. Object Constructor String

    7. COM+ Instance Management Pitfalls

  4. Chapter 4 COM+ Transactions

    1. Transaction Basics

    2. Transaction Properties

    3. Transaction Scenarios

    4. COM+ Transactions Architecture

    5. Configuring Transactions

    6. Voting on a Transaction

    7. Transactional Object Life Cycle

    8. Designing Transactional Components

    9. Nontransactional Clients

    10. Transactions and Object Pooling

    11. Compensating Transactions

    12. Transaction Execution Time

    13. Tracing Transactions

    14. In-Doubt Transactions

    15. Transaction Statistics

    16. COM+ Transactions Pitfalls

  5. Chapter 5 COM+ Concurrency Model

    1. Object-Oriented Programming and Multiple Threads

    2. Apartments: The Classic COM Solution

    3. Activities: The COM+ Innovation

    4. COM+ Configuration Settings

    5. Activities and JITA

    6. Activities and Transactions

    7. Tracing Activities

    8. The Neutral Threaded Apartment

    9. Summary

  6. Chapter 6 Programming the COM+ Catalog

    1. Why Program the Catalog?

    2. The Catalog Programming Model

    3. Catalog Structure

    4. Interacting with the Catalog

    5. Features of COMAdminCatalog

    6. The COM+ Catalog and Transactions

    7. Summary

  7. Chapter 7 COM+ Security

    1. The Need for Security

    2. Basic Security Terms

    3. Role-Based Security

    4. Securing a Server Application

    5. Securing a Library Application

    6. Programmatic Role-Based Security

    7. Security Boundaries

    8. Advanced COM+ Security

    9. COM+ Security Pitfalls

    10. Summary

  8. Chapter 8 COM+ Queued Components

    1. Major Benefits of Queued Components

    2. Queued Components Architecture

    3. Component Services Explorer Configuration

    4. Invoking Queued Components on the Client Side

    5. Designing Queued Component Interfaces

    6. Receiving Output from a Queued Component

    7. Queued Component Error Handling

    8. Queued Components and Transactions

    9. Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Components

    10. Queued Components Security

    11. Queued Components Pitfalls

    12. Summary

  9. Chapter 9 COM+ Event Service

    1. Classic COM Events

    2. COM+ Event Model

    3. The Event Class

    4. Subscription Types

    5. Delivering Events

    6. Event Filtering

    7. Distributed COM+ Events

    8. Asynchronous Events

    9. COM+ Events and Transactions

    10. COM+ Events and Security

    11. COM+ Events Limitation

    12. Summary

  10. Chapter 10 .NET Serviced Components

    1. Developing Serviced Components

    2. .NET Assemblies and COM+ Applications

    3. Registering Assemblies

    4. Configuring Serviced Components

    5. Application Activation Type

    6. The Description Attribute

    7. Accessing the COM+ Context

    8. COM+ Context Attributes

    9. COM+ Object Pooling

    10. COM+ Just-in-Time Activation

    11. COM+ Constructor String

    12. COM+ Transactions

    13. COM+ Synchronization

    14. Programming the COM+ Catalog

    15. COM+ Security

    16. COM+ Queued Components

    17. COM+ Loosely Coupled Events

    18. Summary

  1. Appendix A The COM+ Logbook

    1. Logbook Requirements

    2. Log File Example

    3. Using the Logbook

    4. Configuring the Logbook

    5. How Does the Logbook Work?

    6. Summary

  2. Appendix B COM+ 1.5

    1. Improved User Interface Usability

    2. Legacy Applications and Components

    3. Disabling Applications and Components

    4. Pausing Applications

    5. Service Activation Type

    6. Improved Queuing Support

    7. Application Pooling and Recycling

    8. Application Dump

    9. Application Partitioning

    10. Aliasing Components

    11. Configurable Transaction Isolation Level

    12. Improved Context Activation Setting

    13. Private Components

    14. Web Services in COM+ 1.5

    15. Summary

  3. Appendix C Introduction to .NET

    1. .NET Programming Languages

    2. Packaging .NET Components: Assemblies

    3. Developing .NET Components

    4. Writing .NET Client-Side Code

    5. .NET as a Component Technology

    6. Composing Assemblies

  4. Colophon

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