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| Seminar: |
COM+ |
| Lecturer(s): |
David Platt |
| Overview: |
The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.
The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.
The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).
In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
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| Objectives: |
You will be exposed to as many of the different capabilities of COM+ as possible, and be able to answer the question "What prefabricated technologies does COM+ provide for my use, and what problems do they solve?" There will be software demonstrations showing how to take advantage of COM+ security, synchronization, transaction, asynchronous communication, and publish-and-subscribe event services. |
| Seminar Topics: |
- Introduction and Basic Architecture of COM+
- Object Context and Its Uses
- COM+ Transactions
- Queued Components and Events
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| Lecturer(s) Biography: |
David S. Platt is the President of Rolling Thunder Computing and an instructor in Computer Science at Harvard University. He teaches COM and COM+ at public seminars and at companies all over the world. He publishes "ThunderClap", a quarterly newsletter on COM+ development, available free from his Web site, www.rollthunder.com. His column "ActiveXplained" appears bi-monthly on byte.com. He is also the author of The Essence of COM with ActiveX from Prentice-Hall, Understanding COM+ from Microsoft Press, and many articles on COM in Microsoft Systems Journal. |
| Location: |
MIT room 34-101, Edgerton Hall |
| Date: |
Saturday, 10/28/2000 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Pricing: |
Advanced Registration Price: $80.00 Good until Wednesday, 10/18/2000
Regular Price: $90.00 |
| Session Chair: |
Jim Byrd |
Directions: |
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| Books: |
| Title: | The Essence of COM, 3rd Edition |
| Author(s): | David Platt |
| Publisher: | Prentice Hall |
| List price: | $49.99 |
| PDS price: | $40.00 |
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| Title: | Understanding COM+ |
| Author(s): | David Platt |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Press |
| List price: | $24.99 |
| PDS price: | $20.00 |
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