Finally, there"s a book that cuts through Microsoft DCOM"s complexity, and shows experienced C++ developers exactly how to build and deploy distributed applications with it. Raoul Rubin and Marshall Brain reduce DCOM to its essentials as a straightforward system for network communication. Using extensive examples and sample code, they demonstrate exactly how to brainstorm, organize, implement and test sophisticated DCOM-based distributed applications. Understand the relationship of DCOM to COM, OLE and competing approaches such as CORBA; learn how to create DCOM servers and clients; use threading models, connection points and Singleton objects; and test your DCOM servers. Understand how DCOM"s elements fit together, including DCOM objects, GUID, Proxy/stubs, servers and interfaces; compare implementation with the Win32 API, MFC and ATL; learn the differences between DCOM implementation in Win95/98 and NT; and more.