Applying COM+

For intermediate to advanced software developers in C++ and Visual Basic, consultant Brill explains the conceptual cluster of previous Microsoft technologies. He discusses its services and underlying technology, the concept of interfaces with an comparison between COM interfaces and those of Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and interface definition language as it applies to both RPC and COM. He does not include a bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gregory Brill is founder and president of Infusion Development Corporation, a technology training and consulting firm that specializes in architecting and implementing high-performance trading and market-monitoring systems for Wall Street investment banks. Many of these systems utilize Visual Basic or Visual C++ front-ends acting as hosts for COM components. These components are specifically written to provide high-performance, real-time visual updates, as well as connectivity with MTS-based middle-tier transactional components and/or UNIX/CORBA and mainframe infrastructure.

Gregory holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.A. in English Literature. He has written articles on COM and other Win32 topics for the C++ User's Journal, and gives training classes and seminars to companies worldwide. His courses include COM/COM+, Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and Relational Database Modeling, Enterprise Java, and CORBA. He can be reached at gmbrill@infusiondev.com or via http://www.infusiondev.com/.