Ebook: Distributed Applications Engineering: Building New Applications and Managing Legacy Applications with Distributed Technologies

Client/server and distributed technologies have made great strides since their emergence in the late 1980s to become very popular in the IT industry today. This book illustrates techniques not only for designing GUI client/server applications, but also for managing complex application environments containing both legacy and new applications.
Topics covered in this book include
- The what, when and how of the three tier client/server model
- Coupling and dependency: key design factors in distributed systems
- Distributed application design alternatives for the enterprise
- The Federated application structure for integrating the applications of the enterprise
- A real-life case study of a major financial institution
- Systems Architects and senior technical staff
Project Managers and Software Engineers involved with or interested in client/server computing, and final year undergraduate and postgraduate students will find this book useful.

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Client/server and distributed technologies have made great strides since their emergence in the late 1980s to become very popular in the IT industry today. This book illustrates techniques not only for designing GUI client/server applications, but also for managing complex application environments containing both legacy and new applications.
Topics covered in this book include
- The what, when and how of the three tier client/server model
- Coupling and dependency: key design factors in distributed systems
- Distributed application design alternatives for the enterprise
- The Federated application structure for integrating the applications of the enterprise
- A real-life case study of a major financial institution
- Systems Architects and senior technical staff
Project Managers and Software Engineers involved with or interested in client/server computing, and final year undergraduate and postgraduate students will find this book useful.

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Client/server and distributed technologies have made great strides since their emergence in the late 1980s to become very popular in the IT industry today. This book illustrates techniques not only for designing GUI client/server applications, but also for managing complex application environments containing both legacy and new applications.
Topics covered in this book include
- The what, when and how of the three tier client/server model
- Coupling and dependency: key design factors in distributed systems
- Distributed application design alternatives for the enterprise
- The Federated application structure for integrating the applications of the enterprise
- A real-life case study of a major financial institution
- Systems Architects and senior technical staff
Project Managers and Software Engineers involved with or interested in client/server computing, and final year undergraduate and postgraduate students will find this book useful.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-7
Background and Context....Pages 9-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
The Three-Tier Application Architecture....Pages 41-78
The Three-Tier Architecture: An Object-Oriented Perspective....Pages 79-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Coupling in Distributed Systems....Pages 97-113
Software Dependency....Pages 115-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
The Enterprise and the Distributed Application: Alternative Architectures....Pages 133-157
The Federation....Pages 159-175
Implementing the Federation....Pages 177-189
Experiences in a Financial Institution....Pages 191-207
Pulling it all Together....Pages 209-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-270

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Client/server and distributed technologies have made great strides since their emergence in the late 1980s to become very popular in the IT industry today. This book illustrates techniques not only for designing GUI client/server applications, but also for managing complex application environments containing both legacy and new applications.
Topics covered in this book include
- The what, when and how of the three tier client/server model
- Coupling and dependency: key design factors in distributed systems
- Distributed application design alternatives for the enterprise
- The Federated application structure for integrating the applications of the enterprise
- A real-life case study of a major financial institution
- Systems Architects and senior technical staff
Project Managers and Software Engineers involved with or interested in client/server computing, and final year undergraduate and postgraduate students will find this book useful.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-7
Background and Context....Pages 9-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
The Three-Tier Application Architecture....Pages 41-78
The Three-Tier Architecture: An Object-Oriented Perspective....Pages 79-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Coupling in Distributed Systems....Pages 97-113
Software Dependency....Pages 115-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
The Enterprise and the Distributed Application: Alternative Architectures....Pages 133-157
The Federation....Pages 159-175
Implementing the Federation....Pages 177-189
Experiences in a Financial Institution....Pages 191-207
Pulling it all Together....Pages 209-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-270
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