The growth of interest in distributed systems which address the business needs of companies, and which use network technology ¿ primarily the technology employed in the internet - has been dramatic.  This book describes the development of the new technologies that have emerged or have matured over recent years, such as web servers, CORBA, HTML, XML and Java.  It looks in particular at more challenging applications where major problems in performance and reliability need to be addressed. Using a ¿bottom-up¿ approach, the book discusses client/servers and distributed development paradigms before moving on to more specific technologies that are examples of these concepts. The final part of the book covers advanced topics, such as internet security, concurrency, agents, and ubiquitous/mobile computing.

Product Description: Who is a typo pirate? Are they related to fat clients? And what is shovelware? The rapid rise of the Internet has changed our language. This dictionary allows you to keep up with those changes by concentrating in-depth on Internet terminology...read more

Programming the Internet with Java is designed to teach students how to program in Java - in particular those concepts that relate to the burgeoning arena of Internet technologies. It assumes previous knowledge of programming in a procedural language such as C or Pascal, and begins with an introduction to Java and the basics of object oriented programming. It progresses onto classes, exceptions, libraries and threads and teaches the skills to develop complex Java code. Further chapters then go on to apply these lessons to Internet programming requirements so that by the end of the book, the student will be familiar with the fundamentals of network programming and database access as well as skilled at developing applets and applications. Features: * Numerous programming examples drawn from appropriate Internet technologies such as firewalls, log files and web crawlers * Self assessment questions guide the student through the book and measure progress * Boxed-out definitions of important Internet concepts * Teaching material (slides and solutions) available online. Supporting web site is available for downloading and contains code, exercises (available shortly), multiple choice self-assessment test applets, Java 1.1 updates and links to other useful sites. 0201175495B04062001 (view table of contents)

Product Description: Active Java is a gentle introduction to the use of Java programming languages, starting from first principles and progressing to the point where the reader can employ the advanced facilities of the language. Once you have read this book, you will be able to write substantial Java applications and Applets and incorporate Java code within your web pages...read more

Product Description: Designed to assist in the setting up of quality assurance practices in the workplace. This book gives advice on how to write procedures; how to gain ISO 9001 certification; what the impact of CASE technology is on a quality system and how to ensure staff accept the new quality system...read more

Product Description: This landmark book is the first to describe a methodical derivation process for software metrics--measurements of software products and processes used to monitor, estimate, and control the quality and utility of software projects...read more

Product Description: This book reflects the increased amount of emphasis placed on the mathematical methods of software development in undergraduate computer science courses. The VDM notation is described in detail, with each chapter starting with an Overview/Motivation Section...read more

Product Description: An examination of the life cycle of software which incorporates aspects of software engineering, structured techniques of software development, software project management and software development and mathematics.

Product Description: Clear and concise, this book explains why software is difficult to develop and discusses some of the solutions being adopted to overcome the difficulties. The book describes how software systems "rust", how mathematics aids software developers, the attempts that researchers make in order to automate the software development process, and some of the advances being made in artificial intelligence...read more