- Paperback: 440 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (13 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521778492
- ISBN-13: 978-0521778497
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.9 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,911,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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' … the examples are excellent … if you want a single practical book on the subject … Building Application Servers is highly recommended.' Alan Zeichick, Software Development Times
'… clear and well laid out with good explanations … a useful overview of the many related subjects.' Roger N. lever, Overload 40
'… clear and well laid out with good explanations … a useful overview of the many related subjects.' Roger N. lever, Overload 40
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To address new demands in business computing, software vendors are introducing application server toolkits. The concept is to create clusters of low-cost computers that support one specific business area, then connect these clusters to the network. By using the network as the computer, one piece of software can support desktop computing, electronic commerce, and communication with mainframe software. Building Application Servers is a practical guide to application server technology, explaining the theory of network computing and providing practical techniques that use these tools to produce effective business solutions. It contains practical examples and program code that use UML, Java, RMI, and JDBC to illustrate design problems and programming techniques. The development framework offered in this book spans a variety of platforms, vendors, and architectures. Developers who are familiar with traditional client/server technology but want to learn how to move to distributed client/server computing will find this book useful.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Application Server under the Hood
10 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
Two months ago, I bought this book simply because I could not find another book on application server. At first glance, it was a bit superficial and fell short of my expectation since I wanted to find a book on a detailed explanation of all currently available application server technologies. On further reading, I realised that the author wrote the subject from a perspective that I found both refreshing and useful.
As the name of the book suggests, the author provides you a fair treatment to the under-the-hood knowledge of BUILDING an application server. He gives a high-level description of the considerations that you have to be aware of if you are gonna construct one of your own.
Let draw an analogy. Of course no one would attempt to build their own DBMS nowadays. However, a fair understanding of the internal workings of DBMS would certainly help you quite a lot in development or tuning.
For example, armed with this knowlege, you are in a better position to win your technical manager over to the purchase of an object-relation mapping tool as the intricacies and difficulties of constructing the persistence layer in-house certainly cannot make a business case.
As the application server market is still at its inception, many companies are still at the "proof of concept" state of their corporate technology adoption process. This handy reference clears the mystique in that it provides a vendor-neutral description of what functionality a decent application server should possess. Say, I have never come across a book mentioning time service apart from the "core servies" like concurrency, security, persistence and so on.
On top of this, the author shares with you the hard-won design experience with application server in context.
If you think that the author treated the subject in too low a level, he really did to an extent. And this is exactly why I think it is thought-provoking.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Far too defused and general
11 May 2000
Format:Paperback
This book assumes too low a level knowledge. As a result a lot of time is spent laying ground work. Everything from OOA/OOD to database technology is covered. For a beginner, this may be appropriate; however, if you are looking for a focused discussion of application servers, look elsewhere.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A book with no competitors
21 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Although application servers have been driving Internet Technology, there were virtually no books on them until now. The software architect will certainly find many things missing, but this book still manages to get at the heart of the matter and to get it well.
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