Developing client/server-applications (Q4024088)

The book is a translation of ``Developing Client/Server Applications'' which was edited by QED Information Sciences, Wellesley, Mass., USA in 1991. It's a low level introduction to client/server structures. The book is full of very common statements about the way, how to build up such systems. There is not a single word about the problems in which You will run, if You have to construct a client/server system in practise. In real life You have to deal with different processors, different physical networks, different logical network protocols and different operating systems, and You have to map Your application onto these heterogeneous platforms. And all Your work is permanently accompanied by concurrency, synchronisation and inter process communiation. But in this book there are not such problems. The 185 pages are divided in ten chapters. It is shown in an idealized form how applications are modelled as client/server systems. And it is shown how data is modelled as flat tables in the relational data model. An appendix of half a page of text and one page with graphical representations deals with ``Client/Server and Mainframes''. Consequently the reference list concentrates on themes like Data Warehouse, Design Review, Panning and Systems Analysis. The book is carefully designed and contains no misprints, the translation to German is adequate. The text is easy to read and is supported by a lot of graphical representations. It is not easy to give a recommendation. But maybe application engineers without knowledge in computer science will profit from this book.