COM+ is essential for rapid component development and robust, scalable applications. COM+ 1.5 smoothes COM+ 1.0’s rough edges, and its new features are a most welcome addition to your development arsenal. Future releases of COM+ will most likely introduce new features and component services, probably to complement new capabilities available with .NET (such as the web services support) and improve the integration between the two. Especially noteworthy is COM+ 1.5’s support for legacy components and applications. The message is clear: use COM+ as a supporting component services platform and unify in the same architecture all your components—from classic COM components, to COM+ configured components, to .NET serviced components.

As mentioned at the beginning of the book, COM+ offers a migration path for companies and developers. Companies can start (or continue) their projects in COM, using COM+ for component services. When the time comes to move to .NET, they can start plugging into the same architecture .NET serviced components in a seamless manner, reusing and interacting with their existing COM and COM+ configured components.