Automatic Client Installation Utility MTS 2.0 provides an Automatic Client Installation utility to simplify and automate the process of configuring client machines to access MTS-based components running on a server. This enables MTS developers to build applications as a collection of single-user COM components, and then deploy components in the appropriate tier. Simple Application Programming Interfaces MTS developers have only two new APIs to learn in order to deploy their components in the MTS run-time environment. Extensive knowledge of COM APIs and Win32 APIs is not required. Support for Component Packages MTS enables developers to combine related components into packages.
Packages provide an easy way to secure, manage, and deploy components as a group.
MTS 2.0 includes an ODBC 3.0-compliant driver for databases running on Oracle Version 7.3 and higher. ODBC 3.0 compliance also enables MTS to perform connection pooling of Oracle database sessions for improved performance. MTS 2.0 also improves performance by reducing the number of steps that many internal operations require for execution. Support MTS 2.0 supports operation on Windows NT Workstation and Windows 95, to enable companies to deploy stand-alone versions of MTS applications. Automatic Transaction Management MTS provides automatic transaction management services to components.