Introducing Windows 2000 Deployment Planning
Introducing Windows 2000 Deployment Planning |
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As a development platform, Windows 2000 offers Component Object Model (COM) and Distributed COM (DCOM) support that extends a development team's capabilities to efficiently create more scalable component-based applications. Table 1.10 highlights Component Application Services features.
Table 1.10 Component Application Services
| Feature | Description | Benefits |
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| Queued Components | Developers and administrators can choose the appropriate communications protocol (DCOM or asynchronous) to use at the time of deployment. | Easier for developers to take advantage of the store and forward services offered by the integrated message queuing services in Windows 2000 Server without having to write any code. |
| Publish and Subscribe | COM Events provide a uniform publish and subscribe mechanism for all Windows 2000 Server applications. | Developers do not have to reinvent and program fundamental services. |
| Transaction Services | Provides information updates by calling an application on a mainframe, or sending and receiving a message to or from a message queue. | Provides a way for developers to guarantee correctness of their applications when updating multiple data sources |
| Message Queuing Services | Ensures that a message transaction is either completed or safely rolled back to the enterprise environment. | Provides developers with the facilities to build and deploy applications that run reliably over unreliable networks and operate with other applications running on different platforms. |
| Web Application Services | Developers can use Active Server Pages to build a Web-based front-end to their existing server-based applications. | Web Application Services allows remote servers to be administrated through a Web browser with minimum connectivity cost. |
For more information about deploying Windows 2000 Component Application Services and the Microsoft® Security Support Provider Interface, see "Determining Windows 2000 Network Security Strategies" in this book. For more information for developers, see the MSDN Platform SDK link on the Web Resources page at http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/reskit/webresources.
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You might want to discuss these features and their potential business value with members of your application development team. Their knowledge can assist you in determining the potential business value of these technologies to your organization.