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The Business of Ecommerce explains how to conduct business over the Web. Accessible and useful to both technical and nontechnical readers, the book describes the relevant business issues to technologists and technical issues to business managers. Paul May combines his experience as a consultant to both blue chip companies and Internet startups to provide a generic model for understanding ecommerce opportunities. He makes accessible all of the relevant technologies. This book empowers technical and business decision-makers to maximize the opportunities of ecommerce.
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Outstanding introduction.......2005-08-06
As someone who is getting into the e-conmerce world late in the game, I found this book a great introduction to the issues and problems businesses face in moving online. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs practical guidance entering the realm of e-commerce.
A Good Read!.......2001-05-09
This book is an e-commerce primer. Although its material can seem dated (which happens quickly in this environment), the book is valuable for those who want a historical overview of Internet commerce and technology. Yes, e-commerce has changed so much so quickly that any analysis of Peapod, Streamline, and other e-tailers may seem naïve. But Paul May's discussion of the movement from fat to thin client architecture is interesting and relevant. (One only wishes that the WAP discussion went further!) While this book may not be for every executive or change leader, we [...] recommend it to marketing directors as a valuable bridge between business and technology. It also can benefit those who want a strong, but not dauntingly deep, technical overview.
Excellent and enjoyable read.......2000-10-02
This book is one of a series called Breakthroughs in Application Development. I found the book to be an excellent introduction to the challenges, risks and opportunities that E-commerce brings to business, as well as to our personal lives as consumers. What I particularly liked about this book was that it used both successes and failures as examples to learn from. Also, Paul May does a good job of identifying the real business drivers (not just the buzzwords) which make going "E" so important in the current age. He examines the kind of out of the box/cross-functional thinking that is needed by both business and IT to make a substantial impact on the e-commerce world.
The book also covers the applicable technology at a high level, but not before stressing the importance of a well thought out business plan before diving into incoherent forays on the web. The most startlingly obvious recommendation he made was for companies to encourage and even subsidize their employees experiences on the Internet (a la Ford Motor Company buying PC's for all their employees, allowing access to the internet from work, etc.) since that's the best way to get them e-aware, both as consumers and professionals.
I would definitely recommend this book both for business and technical people. Paul May uses humor and even sarcasm to keep the book light and engaging without skimping on content or credibility.
Best E-Commerce Book this Year!.......2000-09-19
`The Business of E-Commerce' is a great introductory text for senior (technical and non-technical) management, university students and consultants addressing the history, strategy and business models, specific applications as well as the technology required to quickly understand what e-commerce involves.
The well-structured, lightly illustrated and referenced chapters span:
++ getting there- about virtualization, globalization, and intellectualization aspects of business change, and exploitation through origins, recent history, interactivity, connectivity and continuity.
++ a generic business model for e-commerce- local business drivers (copycat, channel development, cost reduction, and partner inclusion), new maps (physical/informational/B2C, B2B, and cross-pollination), and role types (intermediation, disintermediation, reintermediation, and transformation agents).
++ pathfinder application areas- B2C retail, auctions, and advice; and B2B procurement, inventory exchange, and real-time collaboration.
++ technology landscape- data, dynamic networks, security, payment solutions and e-commerce standards.
++ architectures for electronic commerce- logical, technical, and organizational.
++ open issues- legalities (intellectual property, responsibility and privacy, regulation and taxation), technical issues (platform risk, communication disconnect, skills), and market issues (volatility, locus, and trust).
Strengths include: the well-structured `mature' text; the useful lengthy glossary of terms; the attractive style with mostly complete and correct content often supported by useful illustrative anecdotes or supporting materials; and the author's obvious comfortability with discussing some technical aspects supporting e-commerce (1960s EDI, Java, XML, Jini etc..). Weaknesses include: gaps relating to organizational (e-business) development lifecycle necessary to leverage the technology and business models; manufacturing examples with errors (not all manufacturing processes just have discrete steps!); real-time confusion (see any control engineering text for precise & correct definitions); gap relating to object-oriented systems/ virtual organization development (briefly mentioned about 100 pages late!); better referencing and supporting material, and need for more sidebars & illustrations, and about 15% reduced text for same content.
This reviewer got the impression that detailed discussions were avoided to minimize the need for frequent updates/ revisions. Yet perhaps such tabulated comparisons of contemporary tools for applications and organizational development, details of various offerings from major consultancies, and discussion of web-enabled ERP, CRM, CRM, BI (and all those other software acronyms) would have added value for the reader to better implement e-commerce solutions.
Some alternative texts include: the weaker inspiring `Futurize Your Enterprize' by Siegel; the weaker draft `Exploring E-commerce' by Fellenstein/Wood; and Hoque's `E-enterprise' which is initially promising but ultimately unsatisfactory (too much repetition, error, and `jargonism' without support, despite some good charts and structure, to be considered worthwhile).
Overall, a useful and entertaining read- amongst the best books (read by this reviewer) in the last year.
A comprehensive introduction of E-business........2000-09-05
It's really a comprehensive book for novice who wants to learn the concept of E-business from scratch. It gives reader a wide spectrum of themes on business of e-commerce. Wade though it, and you will find yourself filled with e-business wisdom.
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Making business applications communicate across corporate boundaries can be complicated, which is why system architects usually coordinate such projects. B2B Application Integration explains some of the approaches these system architects can take to get application A to talk to database B and Web site C, without simultaneously allowing hacker yahoos in for a look around. David Linthicum surveys technologies generally, and also the products that implement them. He's a fine teacher, able to clarify complicated processes with words and illustrations. He's also well informed enough to express and support opinions on how various technologies are limited, which products live up to their claims, and how to implement specific mechanisms for application integration.
In a typical section on an application integration technology, the book introduces terms and explains the relationships among the pieces of the technology. Block diagrams and flow charts show which pieces talk to which others. Where appropriate, competing technologies are explained side by side--for example, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML). There's very little code included, other than the barest examples for illustrative purposes. This is a book for architects and planners, not implementers. As such, it's an excellent survey of software integration technologies. --David Wall
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- Tools for making different applications and database management systems speak to one another, within and across corporate borders
- Various approaches to the integration problem (data integration, business process integration, and so on)
- Middleware
- Remote procedure calls (RPC)
- Message queuing
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- RosettaNet
- Microsoft BizTalk
- Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
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"Tech Manager".......2005-09-22
"Avoid Linthicum like the plague, August 28, 2004
Reviewer: Tech Manager - See all my reviews
Not only can't he write, he can't even post reviews of his own books anonymously. And what does he man by "My copy already appears a bit raged out"? "
This guy is an idiot. He's posted negative reviews on two of my books, but yet continues to purchase them. This is obviously somebody I fired; I'm sure for good reason.
Any chance you can come out from behind that handle "Tech Manager" and let me know who you are. I suspect I won't get a response. It must be horrible going through life as a coward.
Anyway, the review of my book: It's a good book, a took a lot of time to research the technology angles. It was written for the those that need both deep and rudimentary information, a good overview of the topic.
Avoid Linthicum like the plague.......2004-08-29
Not only can't he write, he can't even post reviews of his own books anonymously. And what does he man by "My copy already appears a bit raged out"?
A Good Balance of Strategy and Technology.......2001-12-25
In looking for a good book on middleware, application integration, and B2B integration, I found that this book provides most of the information I needed. This book offers both strategic and technical information, and I found that helpful with both putting a rather confusing paradigm in the proper perspective, as well as enough new technical information to figure out what works where. The bottom line is that the strategic information is worth the price of the book, and the technical information makes this book mandatory for anybody who has to integrate two or more applications. Read this book first, it will make your life a whole lot easier, it did mine.
Complete, pragmatic and a top reference for architects.......2001-06-16
This book provides a pragmatic approach to B2B integration by focusing on integrating existing systems instead of addressing a "clean slate" approach to the task.
Part I consists of a single chapter that defines B2B application integration, and how to leverage your existing assets and make a sound business case to bring this about. It also provides a quick overview of the key role middleware plays and emphasizes the fact that a truly integrated suite of applications needs to have a built-in mechanism for synchronizing and responding to business events. This is a key point to the approach and differentiates integrated applications from a collection of systems that have been kludged together to communicate with one another.
Chapter 1 also gives a classification of five different approaches to application integration. This is followed in Part II with a chapter about each approach. The value here is twofold: (1) the approaches can be viewed as design patterns (with some effort because each approach is presented in a slightly different way), and (2) techniques such as SEI's architecture trade-off analysis method (ATAM) can be applied from a technical perspective to select the best approach for a specific environment. Part III is devoted to the technology that an architect will have at his or her disposal to apply to the integration. Starting with an introduction to middleware in chapter 7, this part of the book ends at chapter 13 after thoroughly covering the strengths and weaknesses of each middleware model and associated components. What impressed me the most about this part of the book is the matter-of-fact, unbiased discussion. The author used products for examples, but did not favor any particular one, which is a refreshing change from some books on the topic that read like vendor literature.
Integration standards are covered in Part IV, with the same unbiased approach used in the preceding part, and with the same frank discussions of strengths and weaknesses. Key standards (both De Facto and De Jure) are covered, including XML, RosettaNet's methods, BizTalk and XSLT. The part of the book also devotes a chapter to understanding supply chain integration and ends with a final chapter titled B2B Application Integration Moving Forward. This final chapter is packed with advice and things to consider, such as moving from EDI to XML, discussions on security, performance and stability, etc.
Mr. Linthicum has done a thorough job of covering the complex issues associated with transforming existing systems into an integrated suite of applications that will support B2B. I like the way he has structured the book, which allows an architect to derive design patterns as well as perform formal trade-off analysis at the technical level for both the architecture and the building blocks with which to build the architecture - or rather, to transform an existing architecture into one that fully supports B2B. This book should be on the desk of every system architect and gets a solid five stars.
Great all around book on Systems Integration.......2001-06-06
I'm currently using this book for a graduate level systems integration course that I teach at the University of Detroit Mercy. I couldn't be happier. While there are areas that get a bit technical for those who have not worked in IT, it provides all of the information necessary to make educated decisions about numerous B2B solutions. Coupled with the book "Building B2B Applications with XML", the reader has everything they need.
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Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair, and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of distributed interacting software and information handling systems. Self-organising applications are able to dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention to respond to changes in requirements and the environment.
This book comprises revised and extended papers presented at the International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 at AAMAS as well as invited papers from leading researchers. The papers are organized in topical sections on state of the art, synthesis and design methods, self-assembly and robots, stigmergy and related topics, and industrial applications.
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This book is written for architects and developers preparing to design and build enterprise-scale e-business applications using Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework. It will guide technical architects and software developers through the design and development of a fully-featured e-commerce application, the gasTIX online ticketing system, using the .NET suite of technologies. Along the way, key concepts behind new .NET products such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Web Services are explained. The author team, consisting of several talented G.A. Sullivan consultants, has combined experience equaling tens of years in the trenches with the various releases of Microsoft Visual Studio.
The fully-functional live sample application built for the book can be seen at www.gasullivan.com
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This book is written for architects and developers preparing to design and build enterprise-scale e-business applications using Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework. It will guide technical architects and software developers through the design and development of a fully-featured e-commerce application, the gasTIX online ticketing system, using the .NET suite of technologies. Along the way, key concepts behind new .NET products such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Web Services are explained. The author team, consisting of several talented G.A. Sullivan consultants, has combined experience equaling tens of years in the trenches with the various releases of Microsoft Visual Studio. The fully-functional live sample application built for the book can be seen at www.gasullivan.com
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Good to learn how you can use .NET technologies.......2004-10-07
You'll go though the process of creating an e-commerce site. Each process is not explain in great detail. There are general explation of each .NET topic and MS (.NET) servers like SQL server and BizTalk server.
If you want to have a general idea on how you can take advantage of .NET and MS products, I recommend it.
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!!!!.......2004-07-08
It's a ok book, but the download code dose not work. The book is useless without the code.
And don't expect any help from the Publisher, you won't get any!
So save your money and buy another book instead!
Too focused on a particular solution.......2003-06-22
Forget this book, unless you application the same as theirs.
DO NOT BUY.......2003-02-18
I buy this book to help learn .NET to take MicroSoft tests. Did not know book is writen for beta .NET. I did not pass test since I learned from wrong version.
DO NOT BUY. Is old and no help.
Good overview.......2002-09-26
This book provides an exellence big picture of .NET in developing an e-commerce website. It will definitely save you a lot of time in developing a website. It does not provide in detail on how do you implement it though. You would need specific books on asp.net and on VB.net or C# to complement it.
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Aimed at any manager or executive seeking to understand the present and future of e- commerce, e-Enterprise: Business Models, Architecture, and Components is a leading-edge guide to how the Internet will continue to transform the way any company does business.
While there are any number of books describing the Internet revolution, this title focuses on the ways in which traditional "brick and mortar" companies can reengineer themselves to take advantage of both business-to-customer and business-to-business e-commerce. The author's perspective from both the new world of Internet startups and larger, more established companies provides a valuable edge here. While certain sections make fairly heavy use of e-jargon (for example, terms like e-ROI and e-Vision), there is much to glean here for any manager struggling to make sense of it all. The author identifies future directions for improving the efficiency of your organization through e-commerce, and how to improve customer relationships through the Internet. This book offers many high-level "critical success factors" for implementing changes using e- commerce within your organizational structure.
Later chapters look at some of the technology behind the Internet revolution, including various standards bodies that will help integrate business-to-business e- commerce (like CommerceNet) as well as application servers and component technologies (like CORBA, DCOM, and Enterprise JavaBeans [EJBs]). In all, this book identifies key terms, strategies, and technologies that will be required knowledge for conducting business successfully online. It can be read profitably by anyone seeking to understand how e- commerce can streamline business processes and transform traditional organizations. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: e-Enterprise basics, brochureware, e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Applications, business-to-consumer (B-to-C) and business-to-business (B-to-B) e-commerce, business and purchasing processes, e-Tailing, consumer portals, customer care and management, electronic bill payment (EBP), virtual marketplaces, procurement and resource management, value chains, e-Transformation, e-Enterprise methodology, e-ROI and e-Measurement, real-time product design, marketing, product assembly, distribution and customer support, architectural considerations for e-Enterprise, critical success factors, e-Data, e-Networks, industry standards for e-Applications: CommerceNet, RossettaNet, Open Financial Exchange, security, user profiling, searching, transaction processing, user notification, reporting and analysis, workflow management, client and server components, application servers, CORBA, DCOM and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), applications servers, enterprise application integration (EAI) overview, UML, and XML.
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How does a company succeed in the volatile world of e-commerce? The real challenge is to fully leverage the potential of the Internet as a means to building an agile enterprise. In e-Enterprise Faisal Hoque provides a business vision and a technological method for building an agile, electronically-based enterprise using reusable components. Aimed at CIOs, CEOs, and technologists alike, e-Enterprise explores the strategic challenges faced by companies as they embrace business in the networked economy of the future. It takes a step beyond the simple transaction-based e-commerce model and shows how a business can truly take advantage of rapidly evolving technology.
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The Tales of Fido Hoax.......2005-03-29
This is silly and simplistic. If only the world were like this. Moving sidewalks, free electricity, teleportation, hallucinogens for breakfast.
I really cant believe cambridge publishes stuff like this. I wouldnt even espect this from que at there worst.
The author should stick to nursury rhymes. This is nothing but a hoax.
Skip this simplistic book.......2005-01-29
I picked up this book to read on an airplane. The book should help brand managers understand technology better.
I'm not a techie. But I do understand the basics of IT. I found the book so simple that its ridiculous. The cover and intro seemed appealing. Reading more I find the book empty. This is mostly a book of e-this and e-that and nothing tied together.
The value add is zero. The author makes his money in royalties. The reader gets nothing but rambling nonsense. So many books in this pace, why did I stumble on this one? Dont make the same mistake.
Hogwarts for the enterprise.......2003-12-11
As great as the Harry Potter books are, you wouldn't base a business on the theory of Hogwarts.
This book is a silly e-HogWarts-like fantasy that leads one to believe software is a land of wishin' and hopin' and where simple minded split em up into lil' boxes mentality makes big problems easy.
Even in today's world of web services and OOD, serious software is hard work, requires risk, investment and skilled talent in many facets from business to technology. This author over simplifies to the point of e-absurdity. You just plug a hip-bone into the thigh-bone, or is it authentication + framework + function1 + function2 yields application. What garbage, if software were that easy, no more books would be needed.
Once I realised the silliness, (it takes about 10 minutes to read the whole book) I scanned the author's background: A failed e-company (ec cube) to his credit and it appears to me he is just about done with his latest debacle, something called enamics, based on yet another apparently mindless book.
Please do yourself a favor, avoid this book, this author, and, why, oh, why, did Cambridge publish this? A great conspiracy must be behind this...
E-Enterprise: ýWell worth your time!.......2001-04-18
Being an MBA/MSE student, I primarily picked this book to supplement concepts learned in my E-commerce class. My hope was to gain a more detailed insight into e-commerce strategy. I was not disappointed.
This book is jam packed with valuable models, insight and very useful advice. Hoque provides a structured, informative outline of fundamental B2B and B2C business concepts that you need to consider and understand in order to accomplish a successful transition to clicks-and-mortar. He presents a well-defined blueprint from "Brochureware" all the way to E-enterprise and explains the benefits of integrating the extended value chain model into your business model. The book is easy to read and Hoque makes excellent use of relevant examples from companies such as GE, Ariba and Cisco to name a few. He makes good use of tables and figures, although I do feel they could have been made more comprehensive in certain involved chapters. E-Enterprise has the advantage of being a recent publication and most of the information presented in the book is still very applicable, unlike other books that are barely a year old and are close to being obsolete. This book is an excellent resource for all-level management, entrepreneurs and generally all who are interested in the dynamics of a true, sustainable strategy for transformation and "re-transformation".
Read it. It's well worth your time!
Highly Recommended!.......2001-03-20
It's tough to pick up a magazine or turn on the television these days without someone telling you that you must turn your company into an e-company in order to survive. But once you get past these exhortations to "embrace change," it's surprisingly hard to find any practical advice on how to integrate e-commerce into your company's business plan. Therein lies the value of Faisal Hoque's e-Enterprise, which disposes of generalities and plunges headlong into an explanation of online business models, applications, architecture and tools. For the technologically challenged, this book will go down like castor oil. But if you are running a business - any business - Hoque's exhaustive blueprint to creating a true e-business will be exactly the right medicine. For that reason, we at getAbstract.com implore executives and managers to bite the techie bullet and read this book, which also will satisfy even the hardest-core geeks with its encyclopedic guide to the components that constitute the building blocks of the e-Enterprise.
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This book traces the development of e-commerce and e-business systems using the new technologies such as web servers, CORBA, HTML, XML, and Java. It specifically looks at challenging applications where major problems in performance and reliability need to be addressed. Using a Òbottom-upÓ approach, this book discusses clients and servers along with distributed development paradigms, before moving on to more specific technologies that are examples of the above concepts. This book also covers advanced topics, such as Internet security, concurrency, agents, and ubiquitous/mobile computing. Business professionals interested in integrating new technologies into their e-business plans and general readers interested in developing e-commerce Web sites and distributed applications using the Internet.
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Every thing was done professionally, I am complete satisfied with the service I recieved.
Realistic college text; useful to working professionals.......2002-08-24
This book was written as a college-level text. It also targets IT professionals who need to quickly understand the differences between e-commerce applications and traditional information systems as a secondary audience.
As a college-level text this book is one of the few that will prepare students for the real world. The scope of topics, level of detail, and carefully chosen case studies are impressive because they capture the key knowledge areas and issues that working professionals deal with.
As a refresher for working professionals who need to understand the big picture and intermediate details associated with e-commerce applications this book's wide coverage of topics makes it ideal. While students will need to work through the entire book, an IT professional can choose the topic areas selectively. For example, the chapter on E-commerce applications that covers supply chain management, e-tialing and auction sites will have more appeal to a working professional, while the chapters on programming will probably capture a student's interest.
Additional features that will be of interest to each audience include:
- Students and Instructors: (1) CD ROM that comes with the book contains exercises, source code, and additional study material, (2) a companion web site that provides 296 PowerPoint slides that augment the course, and (3) links to over 750 web sites that reinforce the lessons.
- Working professionals: the CD ROM that comes with the book contains the full text of the book, which will allow searching for any topic or keyword. This is an excellent research resource, that is all the more valuable since the book is up-to-date and covers current technologies (Java, relational databases, XML, etc.), as well as important business issues.
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This book will assist the senior level technology professional in turning EAI strategy into reality. The books currently on the market provide an "academic" overview of EAI. They describe the relevant technologies and explain their importance but they do not provide the necessary tools to turn textbook material into an EAI success story. This book will provide a solution focus to EAI. It will begin by stepping readers through an overview of EAI, leading them through the analysis of patterns of integration and then cover the tools and technologies that solve the EAI problem. Topics include:
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This book will assist the senior level technology professional in turning EAI strategy into reality. The books currently on the market provide an ""academic"" overview of EAI. They describe the relevant technologies and explain their importance but they do not provide the necessary tools to turn textbook material into an EAI success story. This book will provide a solution focus to EAI. It will begin by stepping readers through an overview of EAI, leading them through the analysis of patterns of integration and then cover the tools and technologies that solve the EAI problem. Topics include: EAI Architecture Data Correlation Patterns Application Brokers Pattern Analysis Message Models Scalability, Reliability, and Performance
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- Not what you think...
- Not bad for first book on the subject
- Did the author write all these positive reviews?
- This is a must have for long time RPG programmers
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e-RPG: Building AS/400 Web Applications with RPG
Bradley V. Stone
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With the help of e-RPG: Building AS/400 Web Applications with RPG--a revolutionary new book from Midrange Computing--you can develop fully functional e-business solutions using nothing more than your existing knowledge of RPG and the Web facilities already included in OS/400. There's no need to learn Java, Visual Basic, Perl, or even Visual RPG! Step-by-step, author Bradley V. Stone shows you how to: Build Web applications using RPG, create Web pages in HTML, enhance the interactivity of your web pages with JavaScript (not to be confused with the Java programming language), set up your AS/400 as an HTTP server, use RPG to write Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs, write an RPG program to output dynamic HTML to a browser, create Web-based reports from AS/400 data, read input entered on a web page into your RPG program, use ILE to enhance the functionality and maintainability of your web programs, debug an e-RPG program, use dynamic OPNQRYF sorts and selections for your web page, build a full-function e-commerce application in RPG, and more! e-RPG: Building AS/400 Web Applications with RPG comes with a CD-ROM that contains full source code for examples given in the book, including binder language source for service programs; /COPY prototype source; DDS for physical files, logical files, and external data structures; HTML source; HTML images; module source; and complete RPG source for all e-RPG programs.
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Not what you think..........2007-06-21
This book is not as good as these reviews make it out to be. I have read it front to back and it is mostly tips and helpful hints that most gurus already know about AS/400 Web apps. Most of reviews for this product are loaded with 5-star narratives geared to sell books....not true buyers. Beware.
Not bad for first book on the subject.......2006-01-06
You have to give the author credit for being the first person to publish an accessible book on bringing the iSeries RPG to the web. It succeeds in bringing together the diverse threads required (HTTP Servers, RPG, CL, SQL, HTML, Javascript, iSeries Security etc) to build RPG-based web pages. However this book is not without its faults.
The overview of HTML, and Javascript is good, but there are dozens of better sources on the web. The entire discussion of the HTTP server is out of date and dangerously misleading if you are unclear on the recent developments of iSeries HTTP servers. This is not the author's fault, but the chapter should be re-written or removed. In the accompanying code, the author uses his own wrappers over IBM API's which are similar to industry standard CGIDEV2, but not compatible. His method also encourages the deprecated practice of embedding static HTML into RPG code. Also the author's shameless self-promotion is an embarrassment to the industry (you don't have to look far for examples)
Before buying the book again, I would do a better web search because most of the material covered in this book is available elsewhere and often in better depth, unfortunately scattered on different web sites. However if you feel you must own a glossy covered book on iSeries RPG web development there are not many other choices.
g the iSeries RPG to the web.
Did the author write all these positive reviews?.......2002-12-08
I had great hope for what what I could learn from this book. But it's mostly on and on about little useful how to stuff. At COMMON recently I strolled past the (new publisher cause they said the original went Bankrupt) publisher's booth and they were joking about writing online reviews and testimonials! They must not have known I was there. I looked over his new book hoping it would address the important stuff but it's wasn't much better and it's too expensive to make this mistake again.
If it's the boss's money what the heck. If it's your money then keep looking!
This is a must have for long time RPG programmers.......2002-10-23
I have 2 words for you YEA ! and THANKS !. You have renewed my faith in the AS/400. I have been a RPG programmer since 1985. Over the years I have been fearful that PC's and the Web would take over. I am so glad to see that is not the case. I have been through two of your books, e-RPG building AS/400 Web Applications with RPG and Stone on CGIDEV2. They have been very helpful in allowing me to keep my career heading in the right direction. (no more night sweats about my nephews learning HTML and taking over my job)
Great Books - E-RPG and E-RPGv2........2002-10-21
If you are a CGI programmer or just want to learn about it, then these books are just the ticket. Easy to understand and source code is included. Web programming utilizes many AS/400 APIs, some of which are cumbersome to use, but Brad gives you wrappers and service programs which make using them a breeze. I would suggest buying both books as v2 continues where the first book ends.
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- A useful book for all trying to model enterprise systems
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- Great approach to design, development & implementation
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A useful book for all trying to model enterprise systems.......2002-02-15
This is a very good, practical book. I found it very readable, with just an appropriate level of textual detail in most cases. It's the first book I read which tries to tackle the problem of modelling and understanding Enterprise-level system interactions. If anything, Paul sells it a bit short by tying it to "e-Business", since a lot of the ideas and disciplines can apply to less forward-looking Enterprises who are trying to solve traditional integration problems but who may not identify with the e-Business tag.
The early part of the book discusses the principles of component-based development (CBD), and how this can be combined with process modelling to both help improve the business, and to provide a clear model for the systems needed to support it. Importantly, Paul sees the development of both business processes and systems as something which must happen progressively, so neither has to be the subject of "big bang" changes.
The next section of the book discusses the different types of components, and their role in a typical architecture comprised of both new and legacy systems. Paul then introduces his "CBD Process Framework", a way of defining components and then "provisioning" then by the most appropriate combination of new development, purchasing and re-using existing assets.
The core of the book takes a typical business process (car rental) and develops a worked example of the various business, logical and physical models which are required to define the component architecture. The models are each taken through several stages, corresponding to an evolving e-Business process and a system which is growing incrementally. This is much more realistic than presenting the final model "as is", and allows much better understanding of how the model develops. In many ways this is the part of the book which delivers the greatest real value.
The final part of the book discusses different provisioning and funding strategies for CBD, and how an e-Business team should be structured. There's a lot of good stuff here, which may be very useful to someone new to object- and component-based development. However if I'm honest I found this less useful, since there are better specialist books on this subject and it doesn't hold the interest as well as some of the earlier sections.
As an Appendix, Paul presents descriptions of all the major component technologies, and all the major UML-based modelling techniques. This could be a valuable reference for anyone.
I have one slight reservation on the book's core - Paul follows a convention in which an "interface" is a collection of types, and says that "by convention" the interface includes access to all the types. This is a bit different to the Microsoft model, for example, and may make it more difficult to establish good navigation around the object model, or to support "stateless" models. However, this is something to be aware of rather than something which should detract from what is otherwise a very useful tutorial.
I like this book. The worked examples of developing the e-Business model are excellent, so much so that I now recommend this book to anyone trying to model such things using UML.
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Good books don't have to be thick.......2001-11-10
When I got this book I was was amazed by how thin it was - a mere 230 pages. What made me frown even more, was that on first inspection I determined that only 175 pages was main text and the rest was appendices.
After reading the book I realize that it is above properties that help make it the excellent book it is. The appendices contain information about technologies (which could date quickly) and modeling techniques (which possibly don't become obsolete so quickly but could be supplemented as new techniques become available). This makes it a very easy read for people who are already familiar with the modeling techniques or technologies. It effectively removes the need to discuss too much about the diagrams in the text itself.
The main text moves fast, stays relevant and focused thus yielding a very thin (in typical IT terms!) book. It starts immediately by discussing e-commerce, its business relevance and discussing the issues of aligning business and technology.
The book particularly impress me by maintaining its business focus throughout. The development of components is tightly coupled to the business process that is being automated (or newly developed). In this respect it propagates an approach whereby a component-based architecture is incrementally developed. The focus continually stays with providing real value to the client.
Management issues (project management, ROI etc) are also addressed in the later chapters in the book and adds significant value to the text especially if read by potential project managers.
In my opinion the book is a must read for any prospective designer/developer/project manager of e-Business systems.
Great approach to design, development & implementation.......2001-02-09
This book is a well written guide that crams a coherent approach to developing e-business systems into 233 pages.
The theme of this book is component-based development (CBD), which I personally found to be an effective way to design complex systems that can be implemented in a carefully managed manner. The concept of an architecture that is based on "plug-in" components is powerful in the abstract. Like many abstractions CBD could have remained as a theoretical approach had the author not skillfully laid out a map to transforming these abstractions into reality.
The book jumps right into aligning business to IT, making a business case for CBD, and how to plan e-business projects using a CBD approach. It then delves into details that clearly show this isn't another book on theory or unproven ideas.
What sets this book apart from many books on architecture is the fact that support and service delivery are interwoven into the approach, which takes architecture out of the realm of "ivory tower". The author's approach is pragmatic and remains focused on business requirements and delivering systems that have real value to end users. As such, this book provides invaluable advice on how to plan for operations, administration and maintenance of systems after they have been released into production.
While business and production issues receive thorough treatment, this book sticks with its theme by providing a realistic framework in which to design an architecture. It then shows how to use the design as the basis of e-business system development and deployment. This is reinforced by the way the book is laid out to support project stages and phases.
I discovered a lot of great ideas between the covers of this slim book making it, page for page, one of the most valuable books in my library.
Who needs this book? Architects and cheif technical officers, of course, but I think anyone who is assigned to manage development, testing and release of e-business systems should also read it. Project managers who are tasked with managing e-business implementation projects might find the information on managing e-business projects to be the difference between success and failure.
Advice on how to make a hard but necessary move.......2001-01-29
While the recent downturn in the dot-com curve proves that e-business is just old business with an asterisk, there are some fundamental differences. The two most foremost are that e-businesses are technology driven and changes happen at a speed that can leave you codeless. When designing and constructing the technology solution, it is essential that you cut sufficient slack so that it can undergo substantial changes very quickly. The most realistic way to do this is to build generic pieces that can be interchanged easily and where modifications can be done in one piece that are invisible to all others. This strategy is of course the extensive use of software components.
However, like so many other solutions, the initial steps are the hardest. Not only is it necessary to retool development to the component model, but the initial design will almost certainly be slower to develop than any other. However, once done, there is a cascading effect that will lead to reduced costs for an extensive period of time. The how and why of the ways all this works are well-documented and explained in this book, largely from a management perspective. By far, the most effective chapter is chapter 8, "CBD Funding Models."
The decision to move to component based development will of course be based on return on investment (ROI) considerations. Given that the standard in the industry is that the up-front component development cost will be 150 -250% that of traditional development, there are significant justification hurdles to be surmounted. Since it is unlikely that such an increase will be easily accepted by those who control the budget dollars, it will be necessary to justify the changes using other funding strategies. These include spreading the cost over several departments and the selling of the components to other companies. While not all solutions may be feasible, at least the options are explained so that sound strategic decisions can be made.
The move to components is as much a cultural as technical move. To do it successfully, it is necessary that all players be committed, capable of communicating openly about the future and understand that the complete benefits will not be seen for some time. All of this requires that effective team structures be built, which is the topic of chapter 9. Building an effective team in the e-business world is quite different than the traditional, hierarchical team. Flat organization with direct communication lines among all the members is essential if the desired speed of execution is to be attained. Things sometimes move so fast that a delay of even a few hours can have serious consequences. Such an organization is described in detail, along with a recommended size and a list of the members and the roles that they will play. As is emphasized, not all of these roles are necessarily full-time, so it is possible that one person may fill more than one or one person may fill the same role in more than one team.
While moving to components is hard, not doing so is probably worse. Given the chance and with proper organization, it is possible to do so with enthusiasm, effectiveness and a sense of pride that will help retain your workers for the long term. That requires a plan, and this book will help you make a good one.
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