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| COM and DCOM: Micrsoft's Vision for Distributed Objects | 
| Author: Roger Sessions
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (40 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2286387
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 047119381X
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.36
EAN: 9780471193814
ASIN: 047119381X
Publication Date: October 16, 1997
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Product Description
An expert's unbiased appraisal of Microsoft's object technologies and how they can work for your enterpriseIn COM and DCOM, internationally recognized object-technology expert Roger Sessions offers a lucid, unbiased appraisal of Microsoft's distributed objects strategy. Focusing on issues of crucial concern to both developers and managers, Sessions considers all of Microsoft's object technologies and explains the huge impact they are likely to have on the future of enterprise computing. Microsoft has targeted the mainframe market and this book explains exactly how they plan on doing it. Topics include: - How Visual Basic, Java, COM and DCOM work together
- Creating highly efficient object pools
- Using the Microsoft Transaction Server, SQL Server, and the Microsoft Message Queue Server (Falcon) to develop unbelievably robust, multi-tier applications without mainframes
- Integrating legacy database systems into your system design
- Using Wolfpack to create highly available clusters of workstations that outperform mainframes at a fraction of their cost
- Security issues for components
- 10 Rules for distributed component programming
- Extensive program examples include complete Java, Visual Basic, IDL and batch files, and can be downloaded from our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/
ROGER SESSIONS is a principal in ObjectWatch, Inc., a company specializing in distributed object technologies, including COM/DCOM, CORBA, and Java programming. He is an internationally recognized expert in distributed object applications. He is the author of three other books and dozens of articles, and has spoken at more conferences than he can count throughout the world. He was a lead architect for the CORBA Persistence Service and one of the technical leads for the IBM implementation of the CORBA Object Services. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
 Save your money, and your self-respect November 12, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Micro$oft is famous for its ability to push out new development technologies. The reason behind this planned obsolesence is obvious, every time they come out with something new people will have to open their wallets to "keep up."DCOM is just another disposable technology. As such, it was a complete failure; one that the marketing folks at M$ have tried to bury as quickly as possible under an avalanche of .NET hype. DCOM was hard to port because, like COM, it is based on a binary standard (i.e. a standard that changes when you leave x86 and go to 64-bit RISC). Not only that, but DCOM doesn't support distributed transactions. Worst of all, DCOM is a very, very complicated technology to use. Three strikes... YOU'RE OUT! The half-wit MBAs at Micro$oft realized their mistake and have abandoned DCOM, leaving it forever in the backwaters where the only record of its sorry existence are stupid books like this. I have no idea why someone would want to buy this book. Folks, this is a dead technology. It is no more. It is an ex-techology. If you buy this book, you are lying to yourself. This book will sit an gather dust, unless you can find more productive uses for it...like burning it to stay warm.
Book of Escher art May 31, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Could not understand the head or tail of the book. if only he could get rid of the gnomes. My initial impression was that the gnomes must there only in the beginning of the chapters to start out the explaination of COM and DCOM...but unfortunately it dragged on and with it my attention..
Highly not recommended..
 veyr good book to understand raison d'etre of COM/DCOM May 6, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
veyr good book for understanding what purpose these concepts have been designed to achieve. Not so useful if you are a techie, unless you have not used or worked in these technologies, in which case a very good starting point
Not something I would recommend... November 25, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book has good information about using COM and Visual J++. However, using the chip on his shoulder and assuming the general public is not capable of comprehending COM and DCOM directly, Sessions viciously attacks technologies he doesn't like and over sugar coats the topic in a third grade like method using his gnome theme, making the first two chapters a brutal experience. Unless you are interested in learning more insite about Sessions himself, I don't recommend the book.In a Session's-like summary, my brain, named Billy, working with my eys, Elen, and hands, Henry and Harry, attempted to interpret the speakings of the book, Bob. After a tremendous amount of negotiations between Billy and Elen, and numerous requests to Henry and Harry to ask Bob to back up and repeat himself, Elen and Billy finally got to the end of what Bob was attempting to say and agreed that Henry and Harry should issue a terminal close statement to Bob and find a new written topic object. Sorry, but that's my impression.
very lousy book ! a criminal waste of money April 10, 2000
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The title is so misleading . This book is not meant for technical people . Guess it can even successfully put the marketing people to sleep . Probably thie best book meant to have put rip van winkle back to hibernation .
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