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Manager's guide to distributed environments from legacy to living systems

Here is an in-depth look at the current state of enterprise computing, including a critical examination of the technologies and issues that require decision-making. It describes the changing relationships and roles of solution providers and consumers, providing advice on how to prepare for the new e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ptak, Richard 1946-
Other Authors: Morgenthal, Jeffrey 1966-, Forge, Simon 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York John Wiley & Sons 1998
Subjects:
Client/server computing
Electronic data processing > Distributed processing
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing Distributed Systems
  • Distributed System Environments: A Management Primer
  • Overview of Client/Server Systems
  • Logical Layers of Client/Server Systems
  • Building Client/Server Systems
  • Custom, or Bespoke, Programming
  • One-Stop Shopping
  • Systems Integration Approach
  • Building Blocks of a Client/Server System
  • Middleware
  • Application Communications: The Basic Network Protocols
  • The OSI Reference Model
  • Application Programming Interfaces
  • Choosing APIs
  • Managing Interapplication Communications
  • Distributed Programming Utilities
  • Interapplication Communications: Hiding the Complexities
  • OLE for Linking PC Packages
  • Choosing a GUI
  • Interfacing with Database Management Systems
  • SQL
  • Finding and Using Information
  • Transaction Processing
  • Managing Applications on Distributed and Client/Server Systems
  • True Distributed Computing
  • DCE
  • Emerging Components
  • Client/Server Uses
  • A Data Warehouse Example
  • Example 2: Internet Merchant System with Built-in Workflow
  • Using Objects
  • Objects Are Organic
  • The Importance of Objects to Business
  • Modeling Business Problems with Objects
  • Objects in Software Design
  • Object-Oriented Programming for Application Software
  • Business Objects
  • Modeling the Business and Processes
  • Joint Requirements Capture
  • Building an Enterprise Object Library
  • Distributed Computing Progress
  • Standards Set the Scene
  • New Object Frameworks
  • Web Objects
  • Reusing Objects
  • A Responsibility Design Approach.

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