Creating MTS Packages

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Creating packages is the final step in the MTS application development process. Package design decisions dictate the organization and properties of components. Although creating MTS packages does not require programming knowledge, you should be thoroughly familiar with the design and implementation specifications of the application.

It is highly recommended that you review this section of the MTS Administrator’s Guide in conjunction with the MTS Programmer’s Guide so that you understand the design-time implications for packaging components using the Microsoft Transaction Server Explorer.

Packaging components enacts development decisions that include resource pooling, activation settings, and support for transactions. For example, when you create a package, you should try to group components that share resources in the same package. Consider the type of resources that components are sharing in your package, and group components that share "expensive" resources, like connections to a specific database.

Packaging components to take advantage of resource pooling results in more efficient MTS applications. If you review the MTS Programmer’s Guide in conjunction with the MTS Administrative Guide, you can learn more about the development concerns that motivate creating and populating packages using the Explorer. See the Installing MTS Development Samples and Documentation topic for instructions on obtaining the MTS Programmer’s Guide.

This section discusses the following topics:

• Creating an Empty MTS package
• Adding a Component to an MTS Package
• Importing a Component into an MTS Package
• Removing a Component from an MTS Package
• Building an MTS Package for Export
• Setting MTS Package Properties
• Setting MTS Activation Properties
• Setting MTS Transaction Properties
• Setting MTS Authentication Levels
• Locking Your MTS Package