| Internet and Intranet Applications with PowerBuilder 6 Tom Cervenka 1998 | 390 pages ISBN: 1884777600 |
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| $43.95 | Softbound print book | ||
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DESCRIPTION
If you're a PowerBuilder programmer, Internet and Intranet Applications with PowerBuilder 6 is your ticket to learning Web.PB and related technologies. The book covers everything you need to know to build web browser and server programs with the PowerBuilder 6 Internet Toolkit. Also covered is how to write winsock programs with PB, and Distributed PB is covered to the extent necessary to learn Web.PB.
What's inside:
- Ramp up quickly to program with the Internet Toolkit
- Build Internet applications with Web.PB, Windows Plug-in/ActiveX and Datawindow plug-in
- PB6 Web programming details such as:
- Infrastructure: Web servers, browsers and architecture
- Implementation: Distributed PB servers, remote objects and distributed functions
- Interfaces: common Gateway Interface, NSAPI, ISAPI
- Protocols and languages: HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript
- Winsock programming with PB: How to send Internet mail with PB6
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...
"...it's good to find a title that demystifies everything you need to know about building PowerBuilder 6 web and server applications... The author goes far beyond glancing over the nuts and bolts offering a variety of welcome insights without leaving beginners in the dust."
--www.compbookreview.com
"...it was the author's experience instead of just theory
that gave me new insights into how to better exploit
these technologies."
--Phil Yandl, Application Developer Manager, American Medical Association
"...for experienced PB developers ... it's nice to see that
there aren't several hundred pages rehashing the basics.
It will help propel PB developers into a whole different
arena."
--Michael Hotek, Technical Consultant, Modern Business Technology
"Covers the basics clearly and thoroughly enough for the
beginners while still adding enough deep, technical
details to attract and engage more advanced developers."
--Michael Levine, Senior Developer, University of Illinois
"As a method of learning Web.PB and its associated
technologies, the book is both concise and thorough. I
recommend it to both my customers and my colleagues."
--Simon Boulton CPD (Pro, CPI, Sybase Professional Servers (UK)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...
Tom Cervenka is a software architect at the University of Illinois with seven years of PowerBuilder experience. He is the author of the FTP/Winsock sample and coauthor of the PB/CIS sample of PB4 in the Application Gallery that ships with PowerBuilder 5.
Sample Chapters
Two chapters and an appendix are available for download.
Chapter 3Chapter 14
Appendix D
Source Code
The source code from Internet and Intranet Applications with PowerBuilder 6 is contained in single self-extracting archive for Windows 95/98/NT. The archive size is 3255849 bytes.Download the source code.