Is Windows Activation Service + WCF a replacement for COM+

Question

WAS Features

• Application Pooling
• Recycling
• Idle time management
• Identity Management
• Isolation

Sounds a lot like COM+ but hosted in IIS 7. Anybody out there using this technology and am I correct comparing the two?

Answer 1

I don't think that WAS offers the sort of distributed transaction management that COM+ and its predecessor, MTS, offered. So WAS is not really a replacement for COM+, though it does offer some of the same features.