Client/Server Data Access with Java and XML

Written by two of the foremost client/server and Java experts in the world, this powerful book/CD package is a vital programming tool for all database developers interested in using Java and XML Web products and technologies for large corporate applications. You'll find out what these products are, how to program them, and how different and competing technologies can work together. You will also receive detailed information on the following topics:
* Web and Java-HTTP, HTML, and JDK
* Database Systems-RDB/SQL and OODB/ODMG 2.0
* Java Data Access-JDBC, SQLJ, and ODMG Java Binding/Poet
* Web Data Access-Web Gateway Tools like IBM's Net.Data, Data Access Applets, Data Access Servlets/JavaSoft's Java Web Server, and Microsoft's Dynamic HTML
* Java Client/Server Computing-Java Object Serialization, Java RMI, and Java ORBs like Inprise's Visibroker
* Web Data Interchange-XML, XLink/XPointer, DOM, and XMI
* Java Component Architecture-JavaBeans and Enterprise JavaBeans like WEbLogic's Tengah
* Emerging Technologies-Object-Relational Databases, JDBC 2.0, SQLJ Part 1 & Part 2, DASL, and more.

Includes CD-ROM with... Trial versions of Inprise(TM)'s Visibroker for Java(TM) Version 3.2, IBM(r)'s XML for Java(TM) Version 1, DB2(r) UDB Workgroup Edition for Windows NT(r), and WebLogic(r)'s Tengah 3.1.
* All sample programs found in the book.
* Links to IBM's Net.Data(TM) Version 2, Microsoft(r) Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape(r) Communicator 4.05, and Netscape(r) Enterprise Server.
* Oracle(r)'s SQLJ Reference Implementation Version 0.7.1.1.
* JDK(TM) Version 1.1.6 and BDK Version 1.0.

DAN CHANG and DAN HARKEY are both professors at San Jose State University's CORBA/Java Distributed Objects Master's program and lab where they are early adopters of many of the tools and products discussed in this book. Dan Chang works at IBM's Database Technology Institute, focused in the area of client/server Java and Web data access, interchange, and warehousing. Dan Harkey is a distributed objects consultant for IBM and Robert Orfali's coauthor on four bestselling titles, including Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, Second Edition; Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, Second Edition; Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide; and Instant CORBA.