Jaguar Development With Powerbuilder 7 (Powerbuilder Developer's Library)

By Mike Barlotta and Michael Barlotta

Covers all of the steps involved in applications development, from setting up the development environment to deploying a production application. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884777864
• ISBN13: 9781884777868
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Manning Pubns Co
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellant, well written

Excellant guide to getting started with Jaguar. Written for those users who know PowerBuilder and need to move to Jaguar. No distributed PB knowledge is required - Barlotta explains everything you need to know in plain english.The time it will save you in figuring out what you are doing is well worth the cost of the book and more.The examples in the book are good and source is available on line. The only complaint I would have is the code on the web is not organized in the zip file as well as it could be, but the author mentioned he was going to work on that. A little searching will find the code you need.If you are thinking of doing distributed or web based applications using Jaguar, buy this book today.

An exceptionally well formatted publication.

I've been developing applications for over ten years. This book stands out as one of the best I've ever owned. It's very honest about how familiar you'd better be with PowerBuilder if you expect to use this book. The author takes into consideration the probability that you're new to Jaguar and yet doesn't 'dumb down' his guidance. It takes you through an explanation of CORBA, distributed processing, and gets you using Jaguar immediately. Excellent coverage of the administration of and development using Jaguar. If you plan on using EAS to build distributed apps, I highly recommend you read this book.

EXCELLENT

Right from page one this book gets you rolling. And if the book doesn't answer all of your questions Author Mike Barlotta wastes no time responding. Can't praise it enough. Can't wait for the advanced series.

A tonic for internet developers using Powerbuilder...

More and more people will now take the Jaguar Development with PowerBuilder 7 approach after going through the book. This was precisely needed for serious internet development using PowerBuilder. With this book I was able to develop Java components within no time!Powersoft/ Sybase should thank Michael Barlotta for presenting this book for experience as well new PowerBuilder developers building web applications. I could easily rate this my best PowerBuilder book in the last 6 years.Excellent book, at the right time.

Absolutely Perfect

This book is well designed from every point of view. It is highly topical as this technology is the stated direction of Sybase products (including PowerBuilder). It is a book which will bring the PowerBuilder programmer right back up to the leading edge of technology. The book does not assume that the reader understand anything at all about Jaguar. Since Jaguar is still a relatively new product this is a major bonus. In this book all of the technologies surrrounding the issue are defined and examined. CORBA, ORB, etc, all the troublesome new acronyms are cleared up.This is one of those rare books that are an absolute must have.