Object-Oriented Client/Server Internet Environments (Hardcover)

by Amjad Umar (Author)

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Product Description
This book systematically answers critical management and technical questions about the modern IT infrastructure, in particular, middleware. Among the topics covered are: distributed object technologies such as CORBA, OLE/ActiveX, and OpenDoc; middleware for the World Wide Web such as Web browsers, Web gateways, and Java; middleware for remote SQL, such as SQL gateways, ODBC and DRDA; network operating systems such as OSF DCE; client/server transaction processing middleware, and middleware for mobile, groupware, legacy access, and distributed multimedia applications. For information systems management, programmers, systems analysts, and other computing professionals.

From the Publisher
This book presents a systematic approach to engineering new applications and databases, and reengineering existing terminal-host systems in an object-oriented, client/server world. This book is a guide and tutorial for information technology professionals involved in engineering or reengineering systems. Among the topics it covers are: object-oriented client/server applications, legacy data access, data warehousing, enterprise data architectures, application software architectures, transitioning of legacy applications, and methodologies for managing new and existing databases and applications. For information systems management, programmers, systems analysts, and other computing professionals.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (February 14, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133755444
• ISBN-13: 978-0133755442
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,672,553 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely horrible book, December 2, 1998

By A Customer

This books is absolute vague in its description and spends most of its print explaining to the reader where to get most of the information. This book is an exercise on how to write a huge index file to what books to read for what information. I highly recommend readers to look elsewhere than to read this material.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An overly academic writing style, June 28, 1999

By A Customer

The concepts are adequately explained with enough mention of real-world applications, but get ready to skim the unbelievable amount of text devoted to referencing other materials. The most annoying thing about this text is the constant references to thousands of other books and articles. It is also one of the most poorly indexed texts I have ever seen; good luck finding what you're looking for.

1.0 out of 5 stars horrible learning tool, August 8, 2007

By	Max Frost (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This book is horrible. I am not sure what previous knowledge this book believes you should have but it just throws the material at you like you have already heard of all these technologies and know how they work. The writing style is also bad and hard to focus on. While some old technical books never get old, this one definitely shows its age and is annoying to read about out dated technology. The book also seems to repeat itself many times. Just a terrible book. Look somewhere else for a newer better book.