The SAS Object Manager (or Version 8 SAS Workspace Manager) supports two different pooling mechanisms: SAS Integration Technologies and COM+ pooling. The main differences between the two pooling mechanisms are as follows

the way in which the pools are administered
the way the programmer makes the call to get the pooled connection (workspace).

COM+ connection pooling has the following limitations:

COM+ pooling cannot be used on Windows NT.
COM+ does not allow multiple pooling configurations on the same machine (Windows 2000 only).

You might choose SAS Integration Technologies pooling instead of COM+ if any of the following are true:

you use Windows NT
you use Windows 2000 and want multiple pools on the same machine
you want to use the security mechanism available in SAS Integration Technologies pooling
you want to use the same administration model for Java applications and COM applications
you want to specify the pooling parameters in the source code.

Note: Java applications and COM applications cannot share the same pool; however, for SAS Integration Technologies pooling, they can share the administration model used for the pools.

Note: You cannot use SAS Integration Technologies and COM+ pooling configurations on the same machine.

For information about setting up SAS Integration Technologies pooling, see Using SAS Integration Technologies Pooling

For information about setting up COM+ pooling, see Using COM+ Pooling.