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Jaguar Development with PowerBuilder 7 (PowerBuilder Developer's Library)

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More and more people will now take the Jaguar Development with PowerBuilder 7 approach after going through the book. This was precisely needed for serious internet development using PowerBuilder. With this book I was able to develop Java components within no time!

Powersoft/ Sybase should thank Michael Barlotta for presenting this book for experience as well new PowerBuilder developers building web applications. I could easily rate this my best PowerBuilder book in the last 6 years.

Excellent book, at the right time.

Excellant guide to getting started with Jaguar. Written for those users who know PowerBuilder and need to move to Jaguar. No distributed PB knowledge is required - Barlotta explains everything you need to know in plain english.

The time it will save you in figuring out what you are doing is well worth the cost of the book and more.

The examples in the book are good and source is available on line. The only complaint I would have is the code on the web is not organized in the zip file as well as it could be, but the author mentioned he was going to work on that. A little searching will find the code you need.

If you are thinking of doing distributed or web based applications using Jaguar, buy this book today.

This book is well designed from every point of view. It is highly topical as this technology is the stated direction of Sybase products (including PowerBuilder). It is a book which will bring the PowerBuilder programmer right back up to the leading edge of technology.

The book does not assume that the reader understand anything at all about Jaguar. Since Jaguar is still a relatively new product this is a major bonus. In this book all of the technologies surrrounding the issue are defined and examined. CORBA, ORB, etc, all the troublesome new acronyms are cleared up.

This is one of those rare books that are an absolute must have.

I've been developing applications for over ten years. This book stands out as one of the best I've ever owned. It's very honest about how familiar you'd better be with PowerBuilder if you expect to use this book. The author takes into consideration the probability that you're new to Jaguar and yet doesn't 'dumb down' his guidance. It takes you through an explanation of CORBA, distributed processing, and gets you using Jaguar immediately. Excellent coverage of the administration of and development using Jaguar. If you plan on using EAS to build distributed apps, I highly recommend you read this book.

Right from page one this book gets you rolling. And if the book doesn't answer all of your questions Author Mike Barlotta wastes no time responding. Can't praise it enough. Can't wait for the advanced series.

This book was the most useful technical resource I have read regarding PowerBuilder development. As an instructor for Sybase Tools courses, I have looked through several independently authored books and this one is the best. Mike offers much more than the online documentation that most authors give in this type of book. He starts with an overview of distrubuted, but gets very thorough with component development. He adds ideas and tips that were not evident in the online doc provided with PB, and also gives good advice for multi developer environments. He was very helpful and thorough with respect to the component life cycle and the behavior of transactional components. I have not completed the security and async portions of the book, but expect them to be just as good.

The site was going to use PB7 and Jaguar - exciting! I ordered the book, read it, used the many fantastic code bits to get an n-tier PB7 app up and running. Fantastic book.

4 months later, the client decided to use Java, scrap PB development and sacked me without even a day's notice. Oh well. I still think Jaguar and the book and PB7 are tops! But the lesson learned is that Powerbuilder is on the way down and out!

This book was written for PowerBuilder 7 (now 7.03) and Jaguar CTS 3.0 (now Sybase Enterprise Application Server 3.6.1.08). While PowerBuilder hasn't changed much EAS most *certainly* has. When Jaguar 3.0 came out there was no database persistence standard for the Java platform, EJB was barely a spec (v 0.4), and a lot of things that we take very much for granted in the J2EE Specification simply didn't exist. Also, Jaguar 3.0 was a much 'clunkier' system to administer than that newer 3.6.1 release that Sybase has done. While many of the concepts discussed in this book from the PowerBuilder side are still applicable, some of the screen shots and processes are dated on the Jaguar side. Still, the book represents a good history lesson if nothing else. Being that this is the *only* book on the subject of using PowerBuilder as a front end to your Jaguar/EAS server-side code I'd say get it. But it's quickly become in *dire* need of a revamp. Are you listening, Mr. Barlotta??

This book can get you started just in the way you would like to. Mike understands what PB developers need to get started with Web development and Jaguar. Although EAS versions have changed, but the basic concepts suc as "stateless/stateful, instance pooling, transaction support, connection, etc" remain the same. This book is not for Java with EAServer - this is PowerBuilder with EAServer - as the name suggests.

Good edition, great content. Some chapters are excellent. Barlotta has done a great work explaining techniques and concepts, not isolated, but well relationed. Now, expecting another one about Jaguar and Java.