Enterprise Curl [Paperback]

Paul Sheehan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2002

Enterprise Curl is an advanced level handbook aimed at developing a full-featured enterprise application written in Curl for experienced web developers, system architects, and project managers. Unlike other Curl books, this will not be a beginner's introduction to the Curl language, or to distributed application architecture and development, as those topics are covered in detail elsewhere by other authors and journals. Instead, Enterprise Curl is built around the creation of a feature-rich eCommerce application in Curl, and each chapter will build on the previous resulting in a fully functional system. What is Curl? Curl is a fully object-oriented language that takes the best features of Java, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, and Perl, and combines them into a cross-platform cross-browser language that's easy-to-learn yet quite powerful. Curl began in development at MIT in 1995, when they were awarded a government DARPA grant to "develop the next generation of communication and computation software." In the 8 months that Curl has been commercially available, over 170,000 people have downloaded the development platform.

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From the Back Cover

Breakthrough Curl techniques Build rich, robust, low-bandwidth Web applications

Curl makes it easy to build Internet applications that use little bandwidth, integrate with existing Web standards, provide a rich graphical interface, and fit seamlessly into virtually any client environment. Enterprise Curl is the first book that shows how to take advantage of Curl for serious enterprise development. Through a start-to-finish case study, Paul Sheehan introduces powerfully effective design and development techniques that draw on his experience leading a Curl consulting teams. Coverage includes:

• Developing the key elements of a Curl-based application framework
• Creating search interfaces that accept and extract XML responses, then display them in flexible, powerful spreadsheet-like grids
• Using Curl to show data within 2D graphs
• Building Web-based data mining applications that can "drill down" to more detailed views of data
• Using Curl's built-in SOAP support to construct sophisticated Web services

About the Author

PAUL SHEEHAN has over a decade's IT experience, most of it spent developing leading-edge object-oriented component architectures for Intel, Chase Manhattan Bank, and currently SI International, a leading IT consultancy based in McLean, VA. He leads the Curl Practice at SI International and contributes regularly to the CurlExamples.com community Web site.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (December 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131461222
• ISBN-13: 978-0131461222
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,008,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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