Java Thin-Client Programming for the Network Computing Environment [Paperback]

Jurgen Friedrichs (Author), Henri Jubin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 1998

This end-to-end guide shows developers how to achieve powerful results with thin clients and network computing right now. Start with an in-depth explanation of the network computing paradigm. Walk step-by-step through designing, developing, implementing and optimizing thin-client Java applications for intranet, Internet, LAN or enterprise-wide environments. Review these key mechanisms for building distributed Java applications: HTTP, RMI, sockets, servlets, and JDBC. Watch Java at work in IBM SmartCard and X-10 home control applications. Finally, learn exactly how to deploy distributed Java applications on IBM's new Network Station 1000. Network computing promises lower costs, greater efficiency, easier management and revolutionary new applications. This book shows developers precisely how to deliver on those promises.

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CD-ROM Included.

• IBM's end-to-end guide to successful thin-client development.
• Covers every key technology: Java, HTTP, RMI, sockets, servlets, JDBC and more.
• Get results with thin-client computing - right now!
• Design, development, deployment and optimization.

Great CD-ROM! Trialware: IBM VisualAge® for Java, IBM DB2® Universal Database V.5, Lotus Domino® Go Web Server, ModelWorks SitePad Pro® professional Java/HTML/VRML IDE, plus free MindQ® Java training, Sun's JDK® 1.1.6, and all the book's source code!

Java and network computing promise lower costs, greater efficiency, easier management, and support for revolutionary new applications. In this book, an IBM team of Java experts shows you how to deliver on those promises - right now.

You'll start by gaining an in-depth understanding of the network computing paradigm. Then, you'll walk step-by-step through designing, developing, and implementing thin-client Java applications for any environment: intranet or Internet, LAN-based or enterprise-wide.

Review each key mechanism for building distributed Java applications, including HTTP, RMI, sockets, Java servlets, and JDBC. Discover advanced techniques for optimizing thin-client code; and watch Java at work in IBM SmartCard and X-10 home control applications. Finally, learn exactly how to deploy distributed Java applications on IBM's new Network Station 1000.

Network computing has arrived - and Java Thin-Client Programming for a Network Computing Environment is all you need to make the most of it.

Sharing Technical Expertise from Around the World.

This book and other IBM Redbooks are products of IBM's International Technical Support Organization, where worldwide specialists work alongside you to harness IBM technologies. IBM Redbooks make the answers to your most pressing technical questions easily and immediately accessible.

About the Author

Jurgen Friedrichsis a leader of the Jalapeno Team of JavaBeans engineers at IBM Corporation. Henri Jubinis a project leader in the OO/AD group at IBM's International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), Austin Center.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (September 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130111171
• ISBN-13: 978-0130111173
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,387,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shouldn't advertisement material be free?, October 25, 1999

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Carsten Hess (NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java Thin-Client Programming for the Network Computing Environment (Paperback)

For one of the leading company in thin-client programming with Java this is a really bad book. The only thing that is described good enough are the IBM products. This book was a real waste of a lot of money!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It tells you what you already have to know to understand it, August 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Java Thin-Client Programming for the Network Computing Environment (Paperback)

The book starts at a level where you already have to know what is coming. Every topic is presented with technical details, but so brief that you can only guess how to use it in a project. I wonder who the book is written for: It is too technical for a manager and not technical enough for a developer.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Drivel, March 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Java Thin-Client Programming for the Network Computing Environment (Paperback)

To label this book as useless would be complimenting it. This is because it is badly written that it will actually hold you back from learning Java.

I wanted to write an application that was a thin client. However if I followed the books definition of a thin client I would not have gotten very far. The book defines an application that is a thin client as: "An application that is faster than a normal application because it is not fat and ugly."

I found countless typos and logical errors. At one point in the book the page numbers actually start counting backwards.

My advice: If you have to read this book make sure you have a punching bag handy because you're going to want to punch something!