Biography Jeri Edwards is the Vice President of Strategy and Product Planning for BEA Systems, the industry's leading middleware company. She has published over 30 technical articles in leading journals and is a popular keynote speaker at conferences. Java 1.2 is a major new release of Java and contains many exciting new features. The Definitive Guide , and several books about the X Window System. When he is not writing, David is a computer programmer and consultant.
Objects are out.
Components are in. OMG and Microsoft are competing in a sometimes bitter struggle to control the component platform for the next generation of commerce applications. This talk looks carefully at Microsoft's architectural vision and each of its contributing technologies. COM and DCOM are the component packaging and distribution technologies. Falcon is the asynchronous message passing mechanism, the so called Email for components.