J.D. Edwards OneWorld: A Developer's Guide [Paperback]

Steve Hester (Author), Steve Wilburn (Author)

Book Description

Series: J.D. Edwards Press | Publication Date: July 11, 2000

This work delivers sophisticated technical knowledge necessary for third party and customized application development and deployment within a more flexible architecture. It includes reusable code and a standard preconfiguration which can be adapted to the specific business needs of the company in which it is being installed. Special "Developer's Corner" sections provide real-world/practical development advice for creating great software in the most efficient way.

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From the Back Cover

The Official Guide from J.D. Edwards Press...Real-World Advice for Building and Customizing Powerful OneWorld Applications!

Meet the needs of your business head-on with the flexible, scalable enterprise solutions provided by J.D. Edwards OneWorld software. This authoritative handbook provides you with all the tools you need to develop and configure applications with precision and speed. If you want to learn to develop and customize applications to meet your specific business needs such as automated financial analysis and tracking, inventory management and valuation, customer purchasing and sales order automation, and legacy application integration, this book will walk you through each task using crystal-clear, step-by-step instructions. Filled with practical advice and special "Developer’s Corner" sections containing proven tips and recommendations for successful application development, this complete resource will help you create industrial-strength applications proficiently. Written by expert OneWorld developers and officially endorsed by J.D. Edwards, this guide is the authoritative reference for both new and experienced OneWorld professionals.

Inside learn to:

• Develop robust and flexible applications within OneWorld to meet complex business needs
• Understand OneWorld architecture and the role of CNC from a developer’s perspective to create more powerful and scalable applications
• Design and build interoperability interfaces for OneWorld to communicate with external systems
• Customize J.D. Edwards applications to meet specific and evolving business requirements
• Build applications for simple and complex n-tier architectures
• Use the OneWorld toolset to construct interactive and batch/report applications
• Design and modify forms, reports, and tables using FDA, RDA, and TDA
• Learn to create, modify, and debug applications using OneWorld event rules

About the Author

Steven Hester (Toledo,OH) is an application developer for Systems Alternatives, Inc. He specializes in J.D. Edwards enterprise system development and has been working with One World since its inception. He has extensive experience working with supercomputer systems and microcomputers. Steve Wilburn (Denver, CO) has 14 years experience in Information Technology and is involved with the design, development, and testing of J.D. Edwards Software.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1010 pages
• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (July 11, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072123168
• ISBN-13: 978-0072123166
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,288,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Resource - Continual Work In Progress, August 14, 2000

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ERIC CLARK (Mason, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: J.D. Edwards OneWorld: A Developer's Guide (Paperback)

Overall, I would recommend this book for a new or intermediate level of developer. The material provides basic fundamentals and design for the new developer. It also extends JDE documentation for an intermediate level. The book should be on CD, as it would be a resource worth carrying. Big concern is the timeliness of updated material as release level changes affect developer's tools and techniques.

The Developer's Corner sections are a good start at attempting to extend the material to senior level developers. Interesting to notice is the majority of the examples were specific the JDE's custom development (sys 55-59). JDE Event Rules and Business Functions warrant more examples. A Developer's Corner website would be in order, as the author's are made aware of the example improvement and a JDE developer forum.

Part I. : A "must read" for anyone learning JDE tools. The material covered is detailed enough to lead people to proper conclusions. The material also acts as a trigger for knowledge previously learned and stored. Best way to describe it is "I knew that, but now I know the why and how it is related to other areas". Crossover is an aspect of JDE, and Part I helps with the understanding of the interaction of tools, CNC and the applications.

Part II. : Good description of tool capabilities. I'm not sure the authors could go much deeper and not lose the readers. As with any tool set, imagination is part of the process of development.

Part III. : Very good and detailed enough to provide a basic understanding of the JDE tools and object designs. Read it twice, so not to miss anything, because this is the basic premise of object-based systems and toolsets.

Part IV.: The one area that I would suggest a senior level developer check out. The novice should fully understand the previous parts of the book. The JDE cache chapter provides one of the better definitions and use of JDE cache. The Developer's Corner should be expanded as the topic is involved and a good methodology description would be valuable.

Good resource, worth the price.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I shouldn't have bothered!, October 15, 2004

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Steve (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: J.D. Edwards OneWorld: A Developer's Guide (Paperback)

Three years ago, I bought this book as a then-novice developer of JDE OneWorld, after several years of JDE World development experience. In hindsight, I can honestly say this book was not worth buying. In fact, whenever I see someone with it, I automatically assume they don't know anything. Whenever I would look up information on how to do something, it would only give the most rudimentary instructions; it became quite frustrating in it's lack of information. I grew out of this book in about 3 months, and ended up teaching myself, since there was a lack of published information at the time. Since then, I've asked other developers their opinion on this book, and the consensus is that it is totally lacking in detail. It is now obvious to me that the authors were no experts!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars We own this book at work. It is useless., March 10, 2004

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"remor" (Richmond, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: J.D. Edwards OneWorld: A Developer's Guide (Paperback)

All of the developers at our location use this book. On a scale of 1-10, we ALL give it a 1. The index leaves out references to portions of the software and the amount of help is superficial. If there were another book on the market we would buy it. This book was a waste of money.