>>In Strahl's book he makes a reference to MTS as follows on page 19.
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>>"Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) implements a resource management feature called Just In Time Activation that pools server resources by unloading and reloading servers as needed. (A future version of MTS will provide a real pool manager for pooling references to stateless objects.)"
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>>Does anyone know if MTS's latest version has a "real" pool manager now?
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>>TIA
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>Technically speaking, MTS no longer exists. It's now COM+. I haven't gotten far enough into my COM+ study to say if this has been changed or not.

I should have added that VFP COM components cannot play in the COM+ pool because they of their apartment model multithreading.


Quoted from "Requirements for Pooling" in "Object Pooling" in Jan 2000 MSDN:

"No thread affinity
Poolable objects cannot be bound to a particular thread, otherwise performance could suffer. For this reason, poolable objects cannot be marked Apartment model; they must run in the Multi-Threaded Apartment or the Neutral Apartment. In addition, poolable objects should not use thread local storage (TLS), nor should they aggregate the Free-Threaded Marshaller (FTM)....."