Developing enterprise systems requires many infrastructural features such as scalability, robustness, security, transaction support, etc., to be implemented. Historically, developing enterprise systems required a significant amount of time and resources.
COM+, an advanced COM run-time environment that is packaged with Windows 2000, provides solutions to many generic infrastructure problems. The services provided by COM+ facilitate developing enterprise systems.
In the chapters to follow, we will examine each of the COM+ services in detail.