Enterprise Application Architecture with VB, ASP and MTS

By Joseph A. Moniz

Enterprise server developers have always had to cope with feeling inferior to their mainframe cousins. Until now. In this book, I will provide you with the means to create an available, scalable, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861002580
• ISBN13: 9781861002587
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Destined to become a classic along with Date, Cobb et al

If you are finally graduating from structured procedural code al la mainframe to the brave new world of servers, objects, clients, and the web etc. you will need some mentors along the way. I suggest you start with Murach's VB6, then move up the ladder with Balena's VB 6 Programming, and when you are ready to hit the big time, get this book. You'll read it and feel you are navigating the treacherous new waters in the safety, and security of a luxury yacht. Happy Cruising !

VB @ the Enterprise Level

VB is finally coming to the enterprise... Moniz clearly establishes his premise as different than mainstream, and concentrates on the data services layer - an item I've not found much treatment on before this publication. Too many VB "coders" have embedded their logic within forms and bas modules for way too long. Moniz, with others, is helping break this barrier. For those who feel the GUI is the application, you need this book. If you want to build an extremely scalable, extensible application, and all your clients are - or should be - asking for this, you need this book to bring the application to the client's expectations. If you want the opportunity to invest some time in developing your data layers for reuse, this is an excellent treatise on code reuse. Frankly, I differ in the approach of a single data source, and use replication strategies extensively to get some of the data closer to the user. In a large enterprise, this can be an effective strategy, and using ECDO's will help speed this along for you. Moniz's treatment of horizontal extensibility is right in line with Microsoft's - so if you think the Seattle giant's DNA approach isn't the way to go, you may want another book. Yes, there are grammatical errors - and a couple code goofs. But, if you are the type of developer who downloads code and expects it to plug-n-play in your application, well, sorry, that's just not going to happen. But show me a developer who will give you an open, extensible data layer framework for $50. Is it a "do-all" book on enterprise applications? Hardly - that's why there are a couple hundred books on the marketplace in this topic. Is it worth the bucks and time to read? In my opinion, absolutely.

This is the book

I used to think that R. Lhotka's "Business Objects" was THE programming bible; however, I found this book and there are now two. Lhotka is still a fantastic programmer, but Moniz completes the picture.The concepts are very well illustrated and complex operations are shown with the greatest of ease. I have never read a better book on programming in my career or schooling (CP SC Degree).Whether you reuse the code in the book or not, the book teaches programming the way it should be. OOP and component concepts are shown with direct application to the business world. Many of my problems with legacy programming and data models have been solved via this book.I wish more authors would write books at the level Lhotka and Moniz do. The programming world would be a better place.

Excellent Book on Complex Issues - 1/2 Way Through Review

I'm half-way done with this book (page 446) and so far I am very impressed. Moniz does an excellent job in breaking down very complex situations into easy to understand concepts. The first few chapters describe server farms and how they relate to enterprise architecture. The rest of the book concerns itself with Moniz's own strategies for making a scalable, dependable and DOABLE enterprise app using Visual Basic and MTS.Although I've been very impressed so far, I'm still looking for him to wrap it all up (and he has another 300 pages or so to do so) and I also have a few minor quibbles. First, could someone please tell software book writers to quit using the word OBJECT when they really mean COMPONENT! Components are made up of objects. The two words are not interchangeable! Argh! It can be very confusing. Second, someone was asleep at the copy editing wheel. The content is all well and good, but there's dozens and dozens of grammar errors (at least one every couple of pages). It doesn't distract enough to lower my 5 star rating, but it is annoying as hell. Message to WROX: please bring the quality of your copy editing up to par with the quality of material in your books - they deserve it!

This is why object-oriented programming exist.

I've read both editions of Rockford Lhotka's Visual Basic Business Objects and have been directing my development team in the use of these objects. The results were very good and we achieved interface independence. However, when we tried to reuse these objects in other applications, all we could was reuse was the database tables. Not what OOP promises at all. This is not to imply that the techniques are bad, wrong, or that Lhotka's books are bad. Just that from OOP, I've always been left wanting more.Enterprise Application Architecture takes VB OOP to the level it needs to be at. The ability to reuse large portions of code, compilied or not, across multiple applications is addressed and handled very nicely. Joseph Moniz is to be commended on an writing an easily understandable book that presents advanced object design patterns that deliver on the promises of OOP about as much as I think I need.