USENIX Windows NT & LISA NT

USENIX Windows NT Symposium - August 3-5, 1998 - Modison Renaissance Hotel, Seattle, Washington

See information on the Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT Conference (LISA NT)

See information on the 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium

W5 Understanding COM and MTS pm program
David Chappell, Chappell & Associates

Who should attend: Architects and developers who are familiar with general object-oriented design and programming techniques and who need to understand the basics of COM and MTS. Knowledge of a specific programming language, such as C++, is not required. This is not a programming course.

This tutorial provides an introduction to COM and MTS, two key Microsoft technologies, with an emphasis on the latter. The Component Object Model (COM) has become fundamental to software development in the Windows and Windows NT environments. The COM-based Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) supports the creation of scalable, transaction-oriented servers by combining the relatively new notion of component software with familiar concepts from transaction processing monitors.

The topics covered include:

   Defining COM: Interfaces, classes, life cycle, and more

   How MTS adds automatic support for transactions to COM

   How MTS adds scaleability to COM servers

   Comparing MTS components and Enterprise Java Beans

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates, an education and consulting firm. He has worked as a senior software engineer at Cray Research, chaired a US national standardization group, and presented seminars around the world. He writes a regular column for Object Magazine, and his most recent book is Understanding ActiveX and OLE. David holds a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.


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