Designing Distributed Applications with XML, ASP, IE5, LDAP and MSMQ [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Stephen T. Mohr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1999

Designing Distributed Applications is all about creating Cooperative Network Applications. Their aim is to promote the re-use of Intranet and Internet applications and maintain the viability of applications in the face of change.

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From the Publisher

Using Stephen's 5 Principles of Cooperative Network Application Development, you can create applications that can promote themselves on the network, sharing data and logic with clients of varying levels of sophistication. Using XML to define data exchange in such a way that future applications will also be able to negotiate an exchange format - even in the face of minor programming errors or evolving data definitions. Using LDAP this can take place on a network where we query for the services without knowing their location. The result is a distributed computing environment that will remain robust while users and resources are in flux.

About the Author

Stephen Mohr began programming in high school, back when that was somewhat unusual. Over the last ten years, he has specialized in the PC computing platform. A senior software systems architect with Omicron Consulting, he designs and develops systems using C++, Java, JavaScript, COM, and various internetworking standards and protocols. Stephen holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include distributed object-based computing and the practical applications of artificial intelligence.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861002270
• ISBN-13: 978-1861002273
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,760,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Visionary, yet pragmatic, December 12, 1999

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Glen Marshall (Berwyn, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Designing Distributed Applications with XML, ASP, IE5, LDAP and MSMQ (Paperback)

This is a 'should read' book for practicing software architects and those who aspire to be architects. It postulates five basic principles, with complete and orderly logic to back them up, and then proceeds to apply them to realistic problems. This is about as close to a 'how to' cookbook for emerging web technologies as I've seen. The only reason I can't give this book 5 stars is that many people who need to know this material will avoid it due to the Microsoft-centric title. But, for those of us who keep our politics and careers in an open relationship, it should prove to be a very worthwhile and provocative excursion.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good philosophical/theorical content, lack real-life example, August 9, 2000

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Maxime Bombardier - See all my reviews

This review is from: Designing Distributed Applications with XML, ASP, IE5, LDAP and MSMQ (Paperback)

I was more than excited through the first chapters to see that the level of the author was very high in theorical and/or philosophical content. But it faded out when I saw that this book did not really included real-life examples or case-studies.

A problem that I often see is that the examples included in the book are just like data island, they don't know about each other and let us decide where we can really use them.

This book does have one small case-study toward the end but it does not reflect so much the high theorical level of the beginning.

As mentionned in a different review, a lot of buzzwords, and it's true; then again, this book DOES give you a GREAT THEORICAL aproach to SOLVE Distributed Applications PROBLEMS, but lacks in it's bringing us a good implementation of solutions (even though the level of coding was fairly high).

What I hope in the future, is just a book that will join all those buzzwords into one great application with all those technologies & softwares.

24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars argh - an architecture of buzzwords, October 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Designing Distributed Applications with XML, ASP, IE5, LDAP and MSMQ (Paperback)

Please buy Moniz' book and not this one if you are interested in building a real architecture and not just experimenting with the latest buzzwords. XML is good but the author is too enamoured of the technology to tell you how to use it well.

The other reviewers didn't miss the point - the 5 principles he outlined are important but not the most critical. Just read them and think for yourself if you don't believe me...