Dynamic Web Programming Using Java, JavaScript, and Informix [Paperback]

Graham Harrison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1999

This is the first practical, step-by-step guide to building media-rich, interactive, data-driven dynamic Web applications using Java, JavaScript, and the Informix Web Integration Option. Included: a complete copy of Informix Dynamic Server.2000 Personal Edition and the Web Integration Option! Discover how to use the Informix Web Integration Option in both UNIX and NT environments, configuring the software to support large-volume, dynamic, and scalable content with Informix Dynamic Server (Version 7.0 through IDS.2000). Learn how to use Java, JavaScript and the AppScript scripting language together to create dynamic web pages and deploy them over an intranet or the Internet. Master Web application performance tuning, with extensive real-life case studies; and discover powerful tips and techniques for managing enterprise content more effectively. For all Web application developers using Informix databases (Version 7.0 through Informix Dynamic Server.2000).

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Preface

The Informix Web DataBlade is one of the most versatile products on the market today for connecting the web to the database. Creating and managing dynamic web content across the enterprise is crucial to web-enabling databases for business—but information on how to do this, how to make the right design decisions and then make it all perform well, is sparse and scattered across multiple volumes of formal documentation. Information on how to integrate all this with Java and JavaScript is nonexistent. This book integrates all the relevant material, including some of the unpublished tips that hard experience brings.

While working with customers to deploy this technology, it became clear that a conceptual Rubicon was crossed in almost every case, and that integrating the different technologies required a simple but clear understanding of the position of each in the overall web systems architecture.

One day in the early 1990s, I, then knowing nothing about the Internet, dialed in to it. I was unprepared for what followed. The concentrated excitement of being able to download tons of information, about almost any subject I was interested in, was impossible to resist. As a professional programmer working with database management systems, I knew I had to master the technology and link it to a database. That excitement, what Shaw called "the seventh degree of concentration," persisted into many long nights of coding, uploading, and downloading.

When I began to use the Informix Web DataBlade, I felt the same excitement at how simple it was to manage the world of rich content and enterprise data. One of the great contributions that Informix makes to the Internet community is the ability to manage this content and deliver it over the Internet; with rich content and mission-critical data merging into information, Informix' technical brilliance is well positioned to leverage that information and deliver it to the growing world of the e-customer.

Developers come to the web wanting to use JavaScript and Java, and the next step is integrating the database. This book will synthesize all three for novice web developers, database administrators, consultants, and experienced developers wanting to understand the wider issues involved. Non-database programmers will have the power to access the database from the web with little or no SQL knowledge.

From the Back Cover

The hands-on guide to building database-driven Web sites for the enterprise!

This is the first practical, step-by-step guide to building media-rich, interactive, data-driven dynamic Web applications using Java, JavaScript, and Informix. Graham Harrison walks you through every technique needed to construct sites that support high-volume, scalable, dynamic database-driven content. You'll also find in-depth, never-before-published techniques for integrating Java and JavaScript with the industry's most robust enterprise database technologies, Informix Dynamic Server with the Informix Web DataBlade. Coverage includes:

* Writing effective Java and JavaScript code against a Web database: practical techniques and extensive sample code
* Creating Distributed Java applications using RMI, JDBC, and Informix Dynamic Server
* Constructing dynamic large-scale Web applications using the Informix Web Datablade
* Powerful tips and techniques for managing enterprise-class content for mission-critical sites
* Web application performance tuning-including extensive coverage from the web server to the database
* Integrating Java, JavaScript, and the Web DataBlade to leverage the power of each
* Techniques for Informix Dynamic Server-UNIX and NT!

Dynamic Web Programming brings together "from-the-trenches" insight, industrial-strength code, and never-before-published information for integrating Java, JavaScript, and enterprise databases, using Informix Dynamic Server as an example. Whether you're a developer, site administrator, DBA, or IT analyst, if you build database-driven enterprise Web applications, you'll find it utterly invaluable.

CD-ROM INCLUDED

Included on the CD-ROM is a computer-based training course chosen especially for this book, plus Informix Dynamic Server/Universal Data Option, Informix's powerful Web DataBlade software. You also get exclusive custom templates and source code for creating high-performance database-driven websites, including Java applets, JavaScript utilities, and Web DataBlade applications!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1020 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (December 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130861847
• ISBN-13: 978-0130861849
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,450,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, June 30, 2000

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This review is from: Dynamic Web Programming Using Java, JavaScript, and Informix (Paperback)

I found this book to be extremely helpful in setting up a website recently. It is well written, and easy to understand. To be fair, I am an employee of Informix. However, I have used this book extensively and have found it wonderfully helpful. If you plan on using the Informix web datablade, you'll want this book on your desk.