Client/Server Survival Guide, 3rd Edition

Your Guide to the New World.

Welcome to Client/Server Computing.

Client/Server Building Blocks.

The Road to Bandwidth Heaven.

CLIENTS, SERVERS, AND OPERATING SYSTEMS.

Clients, Servers, and Operating Systems.

The OS Wars: Meet the Players.

BASE MIDDLEWARE: STACKS AND NOSs.

NOS: Creating the Single-System Image.

RPC, Messaging, and Peer-to-Peer.

NOS: Meet the Players.

SQL DATABASE SERVERS.

SQL Database Servers.

SQL Middleware and Federated Databases.

Data Warehouses: Information Where You Want It.

EIS/DSS: From Queries, To OLAP, To Data Mining.

Database: Meet the Players.

CLIENT/SERVER TRANSACTION PROCESSING.

The Magic of Transactions.

TP Monitors: Managing Client/Server Transactions.

TP-Lite or TP-Heavy?

TP Monitors: Meet the Players.

CLIENT/SERVER GROUPWARE.

Client/Server Groupware.

Groupware: Meet the Players.

CLIENT/SERVER WITH DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS.

Distributed Objects and Components.

CORBA: From ORBs to Enteprise Beans.

COM+: The Other Component Bus.

Object Databases.

Distributed Objects: Meet the Players.

CLIENT/SERVER AND THE INTERNET.

Web Client/Server: The Hypertext Era.

Web Client/Server: The Interactive Era.

Web Client/Server: The Distributed Object Era.

Web Client/Server: Meet the Players.

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT.

Client/Server Distributed System Management.

Distributed System Management Standards.

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER.

Client/Server Tools and Application Development.

Which Way Client/Server?

Where to Go for More Information.

Index.