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From the
"While you've been in bed"-department: Clemens is working
on "a pretty radical
extension for Enterprise Services and COM+ - it's actually
more a "new feature
set"
than a tool or wrapper.". I
really hope that he succeeds at squashing the GC related bugs.
For those who dare to know, let me rephrase Clemens [1]: we're talking
about interception similar to IMessageSink, but this time for
EnterpriseServices. And no, you won't need a new version of COM+ and no, you
also won't need a new version of .NET or Windows. It seems as if support for
this kind of functionality is already available. But as Clemens puts it: it's
writing code based on analyzing hex-dumps.
If you just
wondered ... yes, Clemens rocks. Hacking things like this is
just a slight little bit above my knowledge: while the tough
guys played C++ and COM in the 90s, I did VB and Java. On the other
hand, there are actually very few things which make me regret this -
it's just that Clemens' EnterpriseServices extension is certainly one
of them. It's so hard to realize that there are things in a technology (which
you otherwise know pretty well) which you'll never fully understand
[2].
[1] Hey, I'm not saying
anything more than he already did. I promised.
[2] Oh yes, I've seen the
source. And it sounds pretty reasonable when Clemens explains it. I however
still don't understand it at a level which would allow me to re-create or even
start re-creating it - and I quite likely never will. I never knew the
glory days of C++ ;)
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