Not Just Java (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Peter Van Der Linden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130796603 ISBN 13: 9780130796608

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1998

Synopsis

New edition of a briefing for IT professionals who need an executive summary of Java's impact on the Web, intranets, and E- commerce, as well as the role it will play in lowering the cost of computing. Coverage includes: the major players in the computer industry and their Java strategies; how Java fits with DHTML, XML, and other Internet technologies; what Java libraries are available; component development with Java; and the security of Java as compared with the alternatives. The author is a Java programmer and an employee of the language's developer, Sun Microsystems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Review

Written with the Information Systems professional or general reader in mind, Not Just Java: A Technology Briefing provides an introduction to today's Internet, gives an overview of what's best in Java (though with a distinctly anti-Microsoft spin), and stresses the growing importance of Java technology.

The book begins with a tour of today's major software and hardware corporations and their strategies regarding Java. (Predictably, Sun fares well, while Microsoft is portrayed as the enemy who wants to "kill" Java, which is probably an oversimplified view of the matter.) Introductory material on the basics of the Internet, from the basics of HTTP and hypertext, follows. Author Peter van der Linden then covers programming within today's browsers, discussing plug-ins, JavaScript, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and Java. Throughout Not Just Java, he uses brief case studies to illustrate Java in action.

Next, he discusses e-commerce, obviously an area with tremendous potential, and then security on the Internet. Here again, Microsoft technology fails to measure up. A tour of Java as a better object-oriented programming language follows, including additional multimedia Java APIs and JavaBeans (including Enterprise JavaBeans).

Later sections in the book look at today's multitiered distributed architectures and what Java offers for the enterprise, including network and distributed computing. Readers who don't mind strong opinions will appreciate Not Just Java's argumentative approach to what Java is and how it might well transform computing as we know it within the next few years. --Richard Dragan

From the Back Cover

Not Just Java is an insightful, up-to-the-minute briefing for IT professionals who need an executive summary of Java's impact on the Web, intranets, and E-commerce, as well as the role it will play in lowering the cost of computing. Understand how Java changes everything and more importantly how it will affect your IT organization. Explore the Java strategies of key players in the industry, including Sun, Microsoft, IBM and H-P. Gain much-needed perspective on these and other critical issues:

• How are leading companies using Java today for competitive advantage?
• How does Java fit with DHTML, XML, JavaScript and other Internet technologies?
• What Java libraries are available now, in JDK 1.2-and what's still on the way?
• What's your best strategy for component development with Java?
• How secure is Java, compared to other alternatives?

Brand-new case studies! From Quote.com to Amazon.com, and Dell Computers, discover the latest and best in Java enterprise and commercial application development!

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0130796603
• ISBN 13: 9780130796608
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352