WebSphere Version 4 Application Development Handbook (Paperback)

~ Ueli Wahli (Author), Alex Matthews (Author), Paula Coll Lapido (Author), Jean-Pierre Norguet (Author), Paula Call Lapido (Author)

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This is the first systematic and authoritative guide to application development with IBM's WebSphere Version 4.0 platform. Written by IBM's own WebSphere experts, it covers the entire development lifecycle, focusing on the sophisticated use of automation and WebSphere tools to streamline the development process. The book offers especially detailed insights into WebSphere Version 4.0's key enhancements -- notably, its outstanding support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition. The authors introduce the WebSphere platform, programming model, and application development tools, and then review each key activity associated with WebSphere development, including analysis, design, coding, and testing. Next, they review analysis and design encompasses requirements modeling, object modeling, architecture, code generation, as well as the use of frameworks. Next, the authors walk through coding and constructing an application using the Java 2 Software Development Kit, WebSphere Studio Version 4 and VisualAge for Java Version 4. The book includes detailed coverage of application testing, from simple unit testing to debugging and tracing; concluding with step-by-step coverage of application assembly and deployment. A simple J2EE application is used throughout to illustrate key concepts, principles, and techniques.

From the Back Cover

• Presents all new coverage of WebSphere Studio Version 4 and VisualAge for Java Version 4
• Covers streamlining the entire development lifecycle: analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment
• Introduces advanced application frameworks: WebSphere Business Components and Jakarta Struts
• Includes a start-to-finish application case study
• Complete lifecycle coverage: analysis, design, frameworks, coding, testing, debugging, deployment, and administration
• Includes extensive coverage of new J2EE support and application development tools
• An exceptional resource for both new WebSphere developers and those migrating from earlier versions

This is the first systematic and authoritative guide to application development with IBM's WebSphere Version 4.0, VisualAge for Java 4.0, and Java 2 Enterprise Edition. Written by IBM's own WebSphere experts, it covers the entire project lifecycle, focusing on the sophisticated use of automation and WebSphere tools to streamline and accelerate development.

The book offers especially detailed insights into WebSphere Version 4.0's key enhancements—notably, its outstanding support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition. The authors introduce the WebSphere platform, programming model, and application development tools. Then, using a start-to-finish case study, they illuminate every key activity associated with WebSphere development, including installation and configuration; application analysis and design, coding, security configuration, testing, packaging, deployment, and administration.

This book's comprehensive section on analysis and design reviews requirements modeling, object modeling, architecture, code generation, and even the use of powerful new frameworks such as WebSphere Business Components and Jakarta Struts. Highlights also include in-depth coverage of application testing—from automated unit testing with JUnit to debugging and tracing.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (March 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130092258
• ISBN-13: 978-0130092250
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,511,334 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A WebSphere 4 (and tools) guide for confirmed webapp writers, August 14, 2006

By	Judith Nader (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This book covers every step of the Web application development lifecycle, from requirements analysis, through analysis and design, implementation, and testing and deployment. The coverage in each chapter is not exhaustive about the development step, nor is it an introduction to it. Rather, it gives a reminder of what the step is meant to be, and explains how to apply the existing IBM and open-source tools to fulfill the step in the application development process. The content is objective-driven, with code snippets, step-by-step instructions, and screen captures. Each chapter gives a list of complementary references for the reader to complete his knowledge of the topic. Besides IBM's WebSphere 4 Application Server, the llist of tools and products covered in this book includes DB2, Rational Rose, Visual Age, Struts, and Ant.

This book is good at what it does, and one should not expect more. This book is not a tutorial about Web application development, it only helps to learn about WebSphere 4 and a bit about the tools that can be used to get a WebSphere 3 application out. To learn about how to write J2EE webapps in general, you should definitely turn toward a dedicated tutorial.

It came to me to get a copy of this book when I was starting as a software developer on a WebSphere 4 project. This book has been a key inspiration to me, providing me with the opportunity to complete my development skills with other book recommendations. Not only as a handbook, it has been also useful to me as a "reading dispatcher". I definitely want to keep this book with me on future WebSphere 4 projects.

If you have made sure this is the book you need, you will be happy with it.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for J3EE designers and Architects, September 6, 2002

By	"sri303" (Farmington Hills, MI USA) - See all my reviews

J2EE architect and designer should read this book. Eventhough the title says ...Websphere 4.0..., this book talks about Ant, Struts, the environment setup and lot more, in simple steps and good example snippets

3.0 out of 5 stars not enough real world examples, April 1, 2003

By A Customer

This book is kinda ok. It gives basic understanding of how WebSphere works. But this material is absolutely insufficient to help developers working with the product. I would probably better spend money on smth else.