Memorandum
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:35:37 -0800
From: | Vince Lauricella |
email: optima@acm.org |
To: | SANFRAN@ACM.ORG |
Subject: | ACM PDS 4/15: COM+, An Overview |
The local chapter of the ACM will hold a...
on 4/15 at SCU.
presents another
by David S. Platt
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY
Saturday, April 15, 2000
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
COM+, AN Overview
of Rolling Thunder Computing
El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
Daly Science Center 207
Developing distributed enterprise systems poses problems that developing
single-desktop systems does not, such as security, data integrity,
synchronization, scalability, and overlapping client-server lifetime.
Writing our own software to solve these problems takes far too long,
costs far too much, and we often can't acquire the skill set to do them
adequately. Fortunately, COM+ in Windows 2000 provides prefabricated
solutions to these and other problems of enterprise software development.
This class will examine the COM+ runtime environment and the services
provided by it, many of which are accessed by administrative settings
instead of writing code. We will examine the concept of a COM+ component,
and the mechanisms used for activating them. We will look at the COM+
catalog, the system database in which the administrative settings are
kept. We will discuss the concept of an object's context, the environment
that it requires to run. We will see, with software demonstrations how
to take advantage of COM+ security, synchronization, transaction,
asynchronous communication, and publish-and-subscribe event services.
The basic idea is to expose students in a single day to as many of the
different capabilities of COM+ as possible. At the end of the day, we
want them to know the answer to the question, "What prefabricated
technologies does COM+ provide for my use, and what problems do they
solve?"
Familiarity with the concepts of component software and COM is helpful
but not required. Code examples for this seminar are extremely simple
and will be shown in Visual Basic. The material will be presented using
easily understood language.
David S. Platt is the President of Rolling Thunder Computing and an
instructor in Computer Science at Harvard University. He teaches COM and
COM+ at public seminars and in-house at companies all over the world. His
class on COM+ in the spring of 1999 was the first university-level
for-credit class on this topic in the known universe. His latest book,
"Understanding COM+" from Microsoft Press, is Microsoft's lead book on
its latest enhancements to COM. It is currently outselling Tom Clancy's
"Every Man a Tiger" on amazon.com. He publishes "ThunderClap", a
quarterly newsletter on COM+ development, available free from his Web
site, www.rollthunder.com. His column "ActiveXplained" appears bi-monthly
on Byte.Com He is also the author of "The Essence of COM with ActiveX"
from Prentice-Hall, a top-notch book on COM for beginning programmers,
and many articles on COM in Microsoft Systems Journal. "He's the only
guy I've ever known that can actually make an article on COM's apartment
threading model funny," said one student. He did his undergraduate work
at Colgate University, and earned a Master of Engineering degree from
Dartmouth College.
Session I - Introduction and Basic Architecture of COM+ :
Session II - Object Context and Its Uses:
Session III - COM+ Transactions:
Session IV - Queued Components and Events
Register early! Capacity limited to 200
Mail in Registration for ACM Professional Development Seminar
Saturday, April 15, 2000
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Tuition includes notes, lunch, and refreshments.
Refunds:
Full refunds can be given if cancellation is received by
4/8/00. Sorry, no refunds after 4/8/00.
You will be notified if the seminar is full.
Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you require confirmation.
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Sincerely,
ACM San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
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Vince Lauricella
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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