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Enterprise Application Architecture with VB, ASP and MTS
enlarge	Author: Joseph Moniz Publisher: Wrox Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$59.99~~ Buy Used: $0.97 You Save: $59.02 (98%) New (6) Used (20) from $0.97 Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 500 Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3 Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.6 x 2 ISBN: 1861002580 Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781861002587 ASIN: 1861002580 Publication Date: May 1999 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy!

Editorial Reviews: Amazon.com Review Amidst the flurry of new development languages, operating systems, and standards, it's often easy to lose sight of the big picture. There's no shortage of tools--but it is often real knowledge of how to use them that is lacking. In IEnterprise Application Architecture with VB, ASP, and MTS/I, Joseph Moniz shares his expertise by presenting a far-reaching framework for large-scale development that may well change the way you program for the enterprise.p This is an advanced title for serious programmers and system architects. Unlike other works that focus on a particular tool or architecture, this book lays out Moniz's own--a framework called an Enterprise Caliber System--which is designed to deliver available, scalable, and secure solutions. He uses an n-tier model of distributed processing but also focuses on horizontal scalability within each tier. p Much of this lengthy hardcover is devoted to explaining his approach, but the author also takes you through creating a full-fledged enterprise management system that employs its techniques using Visual Basic, Active Server Pages (ASP), and other commercial tools. Moniz presents a fascinating four-dimensional data object model that is bound to open new development doors for many developers.p This title's layout is textbook style, with dense text and sample code in tiny type size. However, all of the code is also available on the publisher's Web site for download. Some technical books transform readers as well as instruct. This masterwork clearly has that characteristic. I--Stephen W. Plain/I Product Description This book is about delivering professional Enterprise systems in Visual Basic 6. This book begins where IProfessional VB5/6 Business Objects/i left off. It offers a sophisticated response to the Business Objects book, and takes the dialog further. It also offers an aware response to the techno-political situation at the Enterprise level for Visual Basic. By definition, the task of delivering an enterprise is a huge undertaking. Microsoft's enterprise offerings have evolved to the point where they pose a serious threat to existing enterprise level platforms. Microsoft's promised lower total cost of ownership is driving many companies to replace at least a portion of their enterprise systems with Windows NT Enterprise Server and Back Office suite of servers. While there are many books that consider some portion or another of the enterprise, there few if any that address the enterprise as a whole while still providing the technical details developers and integration teams require for real-world execution and delivery. The information required to stitch together the components essential for an enterprise system can only be found scattered across several tens of manuals that span many disciplines. Managers and developers alike need a clear vision of what constitutes an enterprise system. This book is designed to consider the problem of delivering an enterprise as a whole. It covers hardware from a developer's perspective. It provides step-by-step installation and configuration instructions for Windows NT Cluster server and the Back Office suite of servers. Then it expands upon and improves the IProfessional Visual Basic 5.0 Object/i methodology.

Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews... Where is an editor when you need one? February 25, 2002 There is so much muck covering the gems that the proposed architecture never becomes clear. Too much, Okay, now I'm going to tell you... Next chapter I'm going to tell you... If this book had a good rewritting and an editor, it could have been a worthwhile effort. Also, the focus is split between how to set the physical architecture (how many computers, etc) and how to write general purpose business objects that in theory could be used by many unrelated departments, and split again into how what essentially is making objects suitable for automatic code generation. This book needs to be split into maybe three refocused books, and needs a chainsaw to chop out the wordiness. 1/2 the story November 2, 2001 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This book covers comprehensively how to create a system that allows you to add, edit, retrieve, undo changes on a distributed system. br You will need to tread carefully in adopting this systems because nothing is offered to effectively analyse the system. How to do you effectively form queries against the large number of tables generated? OLAP has been fleetingly mentioned as a new book but to date I have not seen any hint of it coming out.br What also is left out is the source code to the code generator the author has created. It would even be worthwhile buying, but you cannot. Therefore you are stuck with what is offered unless you are prepared to spend hours creating your own.br In summary, interesting concepts but you might drown in the complexity of the system Learn Understand VB Reusable Code December 11, 2000 2 out of 4 found this review helpful This book is mainly impressive but also, as some other reviewers mentionned, lacking some content.pThe great thing is that it does go over some quite good VB code example for reusable applications. I would say that about 40-45% of this book is to learn and understand how to THINK about reusable component while most of the rest is for the actual VB code that does it (and some leftovers for win32 web interfaces).pIndeed, it takes, at the least, an interesting position on Business Logic where he is mainly putting this logic on the data tier but I could agree that in some cases, it could be beneficial.pAs a .NET reviewer, I have to take special care about books that I'm now reading on VB6 code. This book can easily be migrated to the VB.NET syntax mainly because it's the thinking of the book rather than the actual code. Most or all of the ideas are available with VB.NET but the code will obviously needs some changes in order to accomodate ADO.NET, COM+ Application (somewhat really different than what we are used to with VB6), and some syntax modifications that came along with VB.NET.pEven though there is this issue about Business Rules, this book remains an impressive reading about Enterprise Application ARCHITECTURE. Inspired, incomplete, imperfect April 25, 2000 Even as a non-VB programmer I got some great ideas from this book, such as the implicit pattern for implementing auditable entities and dynamic property lists in SQL Server. The (perhaps too long) introductory material on farms (distribution and components) had me yelling Yes! out loud. But, I found the organization of the book befuddling at times, and thought some of the methods and advice weren't as universal as they sounded. Look at this as one man's well-refined method for delivering a broad, but not universal, class of applications on the VB/MTS/ASP/SQL Server platform. Was worth my time. Thanks Mr. Moniz! Great concepts, poor implementation March 28, 2000 19 out of 19 found this review helpful In a nutshell Moniz puts forth a great concept, but plan on using your own implementation. Read on for the details. When I first read this book I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I was elated that someone had an architecture that supported just about everything my users were asking for. Then we implemented, or tried to anyway. The code generated by his 'Object Factory' was poorly commented and dismally formated. It uses older ODBC, and improperly uses CreateObject() when the components are supposed to be built to take advantage of MTS. (You must use CreateInstance() to keep your components in the same context) He is also passing whole user-defined objects across process boundaries instead of serializing the data. Incredible performance hit! Still enamored with the concept I converted it to ADO and fixed the MTS errors, thinking that I would just copy this cleaned-up project over and over and edit it to support new objects. Man, was that ever complicated! So, now I'm in my third iteration (and last) of trying to implement this architecture by partitioning the functionality into separate components. In theory, this redisign should work better, and be much simpler than his implementation. (Maybe I'll write a book with my version.) ;^)

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