Access to Legacy Applications and Data

Features and Capabilities

Component Services expands the capabilities of IIS 5.0 to include Web-based transaction management. Essentially, this is a component-based transaction management solution that provides a programming model, a run-time environment, and graphical server administration tools—everything required to design and develop a transaction application and migrate a legacy process to it. With Component Services, Web developers who use ASP pages can create full transaction management capabilities for deployment on the Web.

By deploying Component Services as your transaction management system, you can profit from the advantages of the Windows 2000 Server environment and migrate selected legacy transactional processes. At the same time, Component Services extends transaction management to include processes left running in the legacy environment.

In addition to providing full transaction monitoring and management, as well as a low cost of scaling up Windows 2000 Server–based systems and software, Component Services offers advantages over its mainframe-based counterparts in design time and at run time. Other advantages involve maintenance and administration.

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