Application Servers: Powering the Web-Based Enterprise

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
• Published by: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers September 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 012251338X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0122513381
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Book Description
Application servers are the present and future of Web-based enterprise. As the software link between browsers and other client applications and companies' internal databases and legacy systems, they enable a wide range of complex online interactions-by dynamically generating catalogs, accepting and processing orders, updating customer or employee data, and retrieving and presenting other requested information.
Application Servers: Powering the Web-Based Enterprise gives technical and managerial IT professionals a comprehensive view of this increasingly critical technology, all from a vendor-neutral perspective. Inside, readers learn successful strategies for building large-scale Web applications that take full advantage of their application server's diverse capabilities. This book is an essential resource for all businesses investing in the Web as a medium for interactions with employees, vendors, customers, or partners.

Key Features
* Provides the only book-length, vendor-neutral coverage of this rapidly expanding area of technological and business development
* Offers an in-depth look at the advantages and challenges application servers pose for large enterprises
* Organized in four sections covering all aspects of putting an application server to work: design, development, production, and maintenance
* Serves as the companion book to Database-Driven Web Sites, the author's innovative look at tools and techniques for building dynamic, data-intensive Web enterprises

Back Cover Copy


Application Servers: Powering the Web-Based Enterprise is an essential resource for all organizations turning to the Web as a medium for interactions with employees, vendors, customers, or partners. Addressed to technical and managerial IT personnel, this book provides both a conceptual and a practical introduction to application serversÂ-what they are, what they can do, and strategies for making them the cornerstone of Web applications that offer an unprecedented degree of dynamism, functionality, and scalability.


Inside, youÂll find all the information your organization requirements to be able to make sound decisions about investing in and implementing this increasingly vital technology. The author pays special attention to the issues affecting the deployment of application servers in real business computing environments: integrating them with existing database systems, and understanding what they can and cannot do.



Features

• Provides useful coverage of all the major products, in the context of a vendor-neutral discussion of underlying concepts and technology.
  
• Organized in four sections covering all aspects of putting an application server to work:design, development, production, and maintenance.
  
• Specifies and describes the protocols drawn on in common application server scenarios.
  
• Offers a realistic appraisal of the promise of application serversÂ-and a frank exploration of the challenges they pose, including integration with legacy systems.
  
• In conjunction with Database-Driven Web Sites and the forthcoming Managing the Web-Based Enterprise, presents a cohesive, forward-looking view of the technologies driving the evolution of e-commerce.

Reader Reviews
I bought this book thinking it will have all the latest technical details about app servers. But it has nothing about application servers at all. The author is simply using the title as a sales tactic. 100 pages of the book is about various vendors who offer app server product, their address, and URL! There are chapters which are absolutely fillers with no useful information: "Chapter 11 : Small Scale Application server"? What is the author talking about? it is 4 pages of no info. "Chapter 12 : Designing for maintenance" (the contents has nothing to do with App servers!) Does it give any useful info otheriwse .. No. 5 pages! Look at any software engineering book, you will get more info. "Chapter 13 : Managing Feedback" What is the book about? 4 pages of useless information. "Chapter 14: How to get there from here" that is the title of the chapter! 5 pages. You will not get anywhere with this book. I wonder how the editors and publishers allowed this book to be published? Instead, read Ajit Sagar's article on App Servers in JDJ Nov 1999 instead. (3 pages ) Comment | | (Report this)