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To: Jean M. Gauthier who wrote (37464)	2/6/2000 2:53:00 PM
From: Claude	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Jean, I'd love to hear why you feel COM/DCOM is so superior. I have looked at both (its my job). First off, with COM you're locked into Microsoft. With EJB Corba, a multitude of vendors are available. For a spec that is only 2 years old (EJB), the industry adoption is nothing short of amazing (at the Java business conference in N.Y.C. there were over 18 app server vendors with Java 2 compliant platforms). With COM I only have Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) for an app server and MTS is a dog for performance. While Microsoft was one of the first vendors to come out with a Component Transaction Monitor (the new breed of app server) they have pretty much sat still since. MTS lacks features of other app servers such as instance pooling. Also, I CANNOT use Java (at least not easily as for EJB) to create my MTS/COM components (I don't want to use Visual Basic (lousy language) or C++ (too complex and unproductive for business systems). Also, EJB specifies much more than what COM/DCOM gives you - it specifies services in the app server such as security, transaction support and more. Like Java's promise of portable code, EJB promises portable components that can execute in any Java 2 compliant container. EJB/Corba to me is a no brainer over COM/DCOM. Also, EJB is one part of the Java 2 platform which provides a standard for many technologies such as servlets, server pages, and more. Claude (rhymes with TOAD)

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