Essential client/server survival guide

Table of contents :
Part 1 starts with an overview of what client/server is and what the
fuss is all about.

Part 2 examines the client/server capabilities of our current crop of
operating systems including Windows 98, NT 5.0 (or Windows 2000),
Mac OS X, Linux, Unixes, OS/2, and NetWare 5.0.

Part 3 explores the NOS and transport middleware substrate,
including communication stacks, RPCs, MOMs, event channels,
publish-and-subscribe, global directories, Kerberos security, and single
logon.

Part 4 explores the very popular database server model of
client/server, covering SQL-92, SQL3, ODBC, JDBC, SQLJ, OLE
DB, ADO, DRDA, stored procedures, and triggers, as well as new
database technologies such as data warehouses, data marts, OLAP,
ROLAP, HOLAP, data mining, and data replication.

Part 5 explores the TP Monitor model of client/server. It covers the
different transaction types including flat transactions, sagas, nested
transactions, chained transactions, and long-lived transactions and
more.

Part 6 explores the groupware model of client/server, from Lotus
Notes, Exchange, Collabra, GroupWise to interpersonal applications.

Part 7 explores the distributed-object model of client/server,
everything from the role of Object Request Brokers (ORBs), such as
CORBA, RMI, and DCOM to client-side component models such as
ActiveX and JavaBeans, as well as the new server-side components
models including Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA Beans, and
Windows 2000 or NT 5.0Æs COM+.

Part 8 explores the Internet from a client/server perspective, going
from the Web as we know it today, to Java objects and new Web
compound document standards such as XML, DOM, and XSL.

Part 9 is about how to manage client/server applications with new
Web-based frameworks that may help manage distributed
applications, as well as system management standards, such as
SNMPv3, MIB, RMON2, CMIP, DMI, CORBA, X/Open, WEBEM,
CIM/XML, and JMAPI.

Part 10 is about how to design, build, and deploy 3-tier client/server
applications. This part ends the survival journey and ties all the pieces
together.