Transactional COM+

Designing Scalable Applications

About the book

The book was written by Tim Ewald and published by Addison Wesley in February, 2001 (ISBN: 0-201-61594-0).

Chapters

  1. Preface (in PDF format)
  2. Scalability
  3. Atoms
  4. Mechanics
  5. Threads
  6. Objects
  7. Transactions
  8. Isolation
  9. Protocols
  10. Design
  1. Toward .NET
  2. Building a Better Connection Pool
  3. Debugging
  4. Catalog Attributes and Component Services Explorer Property Pages

Rules

A summary of the rules the book defines for writing COM+ code is available here.

Technical Notes

Some technical points that didn't make it into the manuscript are discussed here.

Sample Code

Some sample source code that demonstrates the ideas in the book is available here.

Questions, comments and errata

Send any questions, comments or errata to tjewald@develop.com. (Please note that I get tons of mail and while I read it all, I do not necessarily respond.)

Here is a list of reported errata.

Where to buy

You can buy the book directly from amazon.com.

The DevelopMentor Series

The DevelopMentor series includes books on a wide range of modern component and distributed technology topics. See the complete list at Addison Wesley.

Transactional COM+ Home
Rules for Writing COM+ Code
Technical Notes
Sample Code
Errata