Book details of 'Not Just Java (Sunsoft Press Java Series)'

Title	Not Just Java (Sunsoft Press Java Series)
Author(s)	Peter Van Der Linden, Peter Van Der Linden
ISBN	0138646384
Language	English
Publisher	Prentice Hall Computer Books

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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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book is not just about Java--and it is definitely not just for techies. The text provides a solid overview; not technically detailed, but technically very informed; of the major technologies driving the recent growth in networking and internetworking. Chapter one gives the impression of a basic Internet guide, albeit one that is rather more analytical than most. The second chapter reinforces the impression with a fairly detailed precis of the World Wide Web. Chapters three to six, though, explain various aspects of Java, itself, and its application. The last three chapters organize a number of important technologies such as client/server, intranets, network computers, enterprise computing, COM (Component Object Model), ActiveX (including a solid discussion of the security flaws), CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), JDBC (Java Data Base Connectivity), and a review of the major players in the industry. The content is informed, but aimed at a general, rather than a technical, audience. The material is solid, as well as containing interesting snippets of trivia and gossip. And with the author's humour sprinkled throughout, the book is a lot more fun than most. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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