Setting the Done Bit
COM+ will deactivate a JIT-activated object based on the status of a context property, the done bit, as follows:
- When the done bit is set to True, COM+ deactivates the object when the current method call returns.
- When the done bit is set to False, the object remains active when the current method call returns.
By default, the done bit is set to False when an object is created and its context initialized. (Any JIT-activated object is created in its own context so that it has its own done bit to set.) However, you can change this default setting on a per-method basis by using the auto-done property. You can set the done bit in the following ways:
- Using IContextState
- Using IObjectContext
- Using the auto-done property
Using IContextState
You can use IContextState::SetDeactivateOnReturn to set the done bit to True or False.
You can use IContextState::GetDeactivateOnReturn to get the current status of the done bit from the object context.
Using IObjectContext
You can use the following methods on IObjectContext to set the done bit while simultaneously setting the consistent bit used for voting in transactions:
- SetComplete signals both that you are done and that you vote to commit the current transaction. It sets both the done bit and the consistent bit to True.
- SetAbort signals that you are done and dooms the current transaction. It sets the done bit to True and the consistent bit to False.
- EnableCommit signals that you are not done but that you vote to commit the transaction. It sets the done bit to False and the consistent bit to True.
- DisableCommit signals that you are not done and that you vote not to commit the transaction at this time, usually because the state is inconsistent. It sets both the done bit and the consistent bit to False.
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