Application Reengineering: Building Web-Based Applications and Dealing with Legacies - Softcover

Umar, Amjad; Bellcore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137500351 ISBN 13: 9780137500352

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

This book focuses on Middleware topics of the Client/Server field: Web Browsers, SQL Servers, OSF/DCE, CORBA, Lotus Notes, etc. It will focus on the management implications of middleware, analyzing new middleware products, and show how middleware interrelates with other building blocks on network services and applications.

About this title

About the Author

AMJAD UMAR, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist at Bellcore, and an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology and the Fordham Graduate School of Business. At Bellcore, he specializes in distributed systems, and consults/leads projects in middleware for advanced data networks, electronic commerce, data quality, Web access to corporate resources, large scale data management, and legacy system re-engineering. He is also author of the companion book Object-Oriented Client/Server Internet Environments.

From the Back Cover

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Building advanced Web-based enterprise applications: a comprehensive, systematic approach.

Three technologies are converging to dramatically change the nature of application development: client/server, object-orientation, and the Internet. This book is a complete guide to successfully integrating all of these technologies in your new enterprise applications.

Expert consultant and project manager Dr. Amjad Umar shows how to establish data architectures, application architectures, and frameworks that enable successful Web-based software development. He presents a detailed methodology for using middleware to engineer new applications―or reengineer existing ones. He also offers a systematic approach to cope with legacy systems―including legacy data access, data warehousing and application migration/transition strategies.

For each major issue confronting developers, Umar considers the state of today's marketplace, as well as trends that will powerfully impact development projects in the near future. The book contains extensive guidelines, implementation examples and case studies, using a wide range of technologies, including:

• CORBA.
• ActiveX.
• PowerBuilder.
• Encina.
• CGI and other Web gateways

The book includes short tutorials on object-oriented concepts, distributed objects, the World Wide Web, and client/server middleware. Each chapter is written as a self-contained tutorial―making the book a valuable resource not only for IT professionals, but also for trainers, teachers, and advanced students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137500351
• ISBN 13: 9780137500352
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 632