This class provides an introduction to the use of DCOM for building distributed applications. It provides details about the internals of DCOM so that students can optimize their applications to make effective use of DCOM. The class also deals with DCOM security - one of the more difficult aspects of DCOM. This class concludes by taking a look at COM+ the next version of COM to be released with Windows 2000.

COM/COM+ Training Prerequisites

Basic networking concepts, prior exposure to COM and Windows, COM/COM+ experience.

COM/COM+ Training Course duration

4 Days

COM/COM+ Training Course outline

• DCOM intro and comparison with other standards like CORBA
• DCOM concepts
• Creating and accessing a remote object
• DCOM internals
• DCOM optimization techniques
• Standard and custom marshalling
• Microsoft Transaction Server
• DCOM security
• IDL
• COM+ overview, COM+ applications & deployment, COM+ explorer, COM+ catalog
• COM+ services
• COM+ - remoting infrastucture improvements, rental threading model