Distributed Application Development With Powerbuilder 6 (Powerbuilder Developer's Library)

By Michael Barlotta

Distributed computing means programs that run on two or more systems. This text provides information on Distributed PowerBuilder. It builds a simple application step-by-step, and discusses all of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884777686
• ISBN13: 9781884777684
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Manning Pubns Co
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

This book is terrific!

If you are a Powerbuilder Guru, you must read this book, otherwise you'd take the risk to know less than your apprentices. If you are a novice, you must read it to become a Guru. Don't loose time with me, go to buy one!

Two Thumbs Up !!!

I just can't wait until I finish reading the entire book before I post this review because this is the best PowerBuilder book I have ever read. This book leads you through the steps on how to develop a distributed PowerBuilder applications. This is a must have and the only book you need to learn how to write DPB applications. Well done, Michael !!

A Great Book For Learning Distributed PowerBuilder

A wonderful book that finally fills in the gap left open by most other PowerBuilder books. The first few chapters give a great overview of distributed powerbuilder. From there the book goes on to give an indepth description of how distributed computing relates to PowerBuilder. Code examples are given constantly throughout the book so that you can see what exactly is going on in the author's head. The book concludes with chapters that deal with intergrating PowerBuilder with Jaquar and COM. A must read for PowerBuilder developers who are looking to make the leap from Client/Server to Distributed Computing.

This book is awesome!

This is a great book for learning how to do distributed PowerBuilder development. The first part of the book gives a great overview of distributed architecture and why you would use it. Then the book walks you through a basic (Hello World) example and builds on that. Source code is available from the publishers web site. It is very helpful. For the price of the book, you can actually have a prebuilt Server Application. More focus could be given to Web-PB, but I think Mike might be writing another book on that. This book is highly recommended!!!

Phoenomenal

This book is absolutely fantastic. It starts out assuming practically nothing. It gives a good explanation of the concepts of TCP/IP that the PowerBuilder programmer needs to know and proceeds from there. If you are going to do ANY multi-tier architecture applications then you absolutely must have this book