Developing Enterprise Applications -An Impurist's View

By Paul Tindall

This work shows software architects, developers and managers how to apply both common and lesser known patterns and framework components to create flexible, global enterprise applications using... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789722690
• ISBN13: 9780789722690
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Que Pub
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book for advanced developers

If you are a developer who already knows the basics and has gone through the simple examples provided in the documentation and teaching books, then this book is for you for an advanced exposition of the subject. You will also get a nice feeling reading the code (the book has a good amount of it) which works, since the author has actually implemented it in a production environment.

Topical N-Tier Development

The book covers vb-object to db-tables mapping. The download code for this is not in sync with the book on areas such as ClassManager/Lib and on the DataManager GetObject (set DataManager ClassDef.DatabaseName), some Interface Methods too, an (optional?) XML parameter. With no installation Readme or Errata file this could be overcome by the author (please) update the downloadable code. Although Session Variables (and ActiveX Controls)are used in places there is no talk of their security limits. Otherwise an excellent book!

Fantastic Resource...

I recently rolled off of a project that was predominantly a Microsoft platform. Paul's book for me, was a great help from start to finish. The title is an extremely accurate description of how he presents valuable information to the reader.A pleasant addendum to Paul's book, is the fact that he builds and refers to a very real world enterprise application, using all of the components that he covers thoroughly: VB, MTS, IIS, MSSQL, and XML. For example, Chapter 7 covers the "Class Manager Library" which the author builds in great detail. He covers all components with equal committment, and then follows it up with great instruction on how to take it to the web in Chap. 12.Cheers to Tindall for writing a succinct and well thought out book that has an extremely honest title, and jeers to those who attempt to lead you to buy their book via a misleading market buzzwords and fluff. Thanks for the honest picture - it helped me get a great project review!

Intense

The author has taken the very complex subject matter of distributed object development and successfully broken it down into several major pieces in this book. First, he succinctly leads you through the world of distributed systems, tiers and layers, and object orientation. He then talks about the COM and DCOM world and how they relate to distributed system development. Many books would stop there, but the author then proceeds to lay out an entire application framework that can be built with the stuff that Microsoft provides. While I have just started digging into the details, I am impressed by what I have seen so far. If you are serious about pushing your applications to the limit, you should look at this book.