iSeries and AS/400 Java at Work [Paperback]

Don Denoncourt (Author)

Book Description

Series: at Work | Publication Date: December 10, 2001

If you are a good Java programmer who wants to become an excellent Java application developer, this book and companion CD-ROM are for you. This book contains 64 chapters written by 18 leading Java experts on Java technologies. Originally compiled by Don Denoncourt as a personal resource to help him develop and code Java applications for his consulting business, iSeries and AS/400 JavaTM at Work contains all the essential information Denoncourt has gleaned from his years as the editor of AS/400 NetJava Expert, a on time contributor to Midrange Computing, and an award-winning seminar speaker. "I consider this book to be my secondary storage device for Java technology," says Denoncourt. "It is an extension of my Java capabilities, and it could be the same for you." This is not a book for the beginner Java programmer. Rather, it is the definitive second-tier education for Java programmers. Many know the language; those who succeed will know how to make the language work in a business environment. This book will show you how the experts are getting it done.

Java is a pervasive technology today. iSeries and AS/400 shops are clamoring for Java expertise so that they can modernize their business applications and build their Web presence. Businesses need Java programmers who can use their skills to contribute real value as application developers. Successful Java programmers need more than basic Java programming skills; they need a strong grasp of business--real-world tools to develop robust applications. There has never been a better time to build your Java skills, and there has never been a better resource to help you do it than iSeries and AS/400 Java at Work

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About the Author

I'm Don Denoncourt, and I'm a Java evangelist. I spent 10 years in the world of business applications design using RPG and COBOL. One day I began to wonder if there was more to programming than structured applications. I bid farewell to friends and family and moved fifteen hundred miles to be a systems programmer at ASNA. There I began a journey of enlightenment as the masters of ASNA taught me the tenets of object-oriented programming with C++. I learned that, although structured techniques had served AS/400 programmers well, there was a better way. After five years, I was ready to come down off the mountaintop and preach the gospel of object-oriented programming. But C++ was a language for computer scientists; not business applications programmers. I needed a language that was not as complex and error-prone as C++ and yet was purely object-oriented. The company called Sun delivered that language to me in the form of Java.

The way is object-oriented programming; the language of the way is Java. MC press, LLC has seen fit to give me access to a powerful media to spread my Java evangelism. It is my job to help MC Press, LLC readers prepare themselves for a future that involves the bandwidth of the Internet and the language and platform of Java. I thoroughly enjoy it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: Mc Press (December 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583470182
• ISBN-13: 978-1583470183
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,602,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good reference, March 30, 2004

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V. M Salomon "vinnie70" (Glendale Heights, Il) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iSeries and AS/400 Java at Work (Paperback)

Here are the good and bad points regarding this book:
First the bad:

Since the book is a compilation of several writers, there is often material that is repeated. One author will cover a topic as a building block for the main topic. However, the build block topic was covered in a previous chaper by a different author.

Some of the material is dated. For example, websphere chapters seem like they were probably reworks of older magazine articles. New releases are always coming out but for a reletively new book to be more than one release behind is frustrating.

The good points:

Many topics covered

plenty of examples

lots of useful information. A good way for as/400 programmers to get started in java development. Not lots of theory but lets you get some working examples quickly.

Overall, this books positive points outweigh it's negative points and is worth having for as/400 programmers who want to start using java in this environment.