Developing Distributed & E-commerce Applications

by Ince, Darrel

• ISBN13: 9780321417190
• ISBN10: 0321417194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-20
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Table of Contents

The changes for the 3 rd edition There are two categories of change. The first category are changes which have arisen from new technologies that have come to the fore in the past two years, technologies associated with areas such as peer-to-peer networks, mobile computing and ambient computing. The other change has arisen in the area of systems development. The way that we develop systems is changing rapidly; many Internet-based developers now construct systems from prewritten components and employ technologies such as web services to integrate rather than develop from scratch. A new chapter in the book deals with development by integration. A list of detailed changes is shown below with the effect in terms of page changes in brackets. The changes represent the original changes that I proposed in August and about 80% of the changes asked for by five academics who Owen Knight asked to comment on new directions for the book. Chapter 1 (+10) A new case study is to be added replacing the older Sydney Olympic Games case study. Four pages on open source software to be added. New coverage of Amazon, Google and eBay. Material on new models such as price comparison sites. Chapter 3 (+5) More material on peer to peer computing and the Grid. Chapter 6 (+20) Quadruple the amount of coverage on Web services. Big new section on the semantic net. Chapter 7 (+5) Material added on PHP. Material added on ASP.net. New material on Web application frameworks. New material on application servers Chapters 9 and 10 (-15) Are to be merged Chapter 11 (+10) An ecommerce security case study is to be added and it will be updated to look at new algorithms for security and new attacks such as phishing. Chapter 14 (+3) Includes new material on quality of service issues. Chapter 16 (+5) Completely re-written to focus on modern MP3 players and (Docomo/Symbian/Palm/WinCE) Smartphones. Chapter 17 (0) Complete replacement with a new case study with a Friends Reunited flavour. This will be less code oriented and more broad brush. New chapter on Systems integration (+20) The Internet is revolutionising the way that we develop software in that many Internet-based developers are carrying out integration with only a small amount of ‘glue' code being developed. This will look at how technologies such as XML and web services are employed in integration and will look at four ways to manage and develop integrated systems via business process analysis, via federated databases, via service-based techniques and via portals.