Transaction Services

September 1997 / Eval / IIS 4.0 Scales New Heights / Transaction Services

IIS creates one Web Application Manager (WAM) for each app configured on the server. Each WAM runs in a "package," which can be either in or out of process; clients share in-process apps, but the server creates an instance of the application every time a browser requests an out-of-process app. Microsoft Transaction Server manages processes as well as threads and database connection pools.

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