Product Description: As a development team, you want to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications. You want to use Ruby and Rails. But can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? Bruce Tate's From Java to Ruby has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that'll help persuade managers and executives who've seen it all...read more

Discusses the positive and negative aspects of EJB, the server-side core of J2EE application development, and explores topics such as when to use EJB, session states, alternatives to entity beans, and techniques to improve performance.

A comprehensive analysis of common server-side Java programming traps, called anti-patterns, and their causes and resolutions, this book is based on the premise that software programmers enjoy learning not from successful techniques and design patterns, but from bad programs, design problems, and war stories: bitter examples. Original. (Intermediate) (view table of contents)

Product Description: Written by experts at IBM's OS/2 software development lab, this timely reference offers an in-depth examination of object-oriented programming (OOP) in the framework of OS/2. With an eye towards enabling users to create tighter, easier-to-maintain code produced at considerable savings of time and money, the authors begin with a guide to basic OOP principles and then progress through increasingly complex OOP concepts such as class, inheritance, initializers, destructors, all within the context of family OS/2 features...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As companies expand and databases are accessed by more and more users, the need for sound management of these databases becomes more critical. Since the new IBM OS/2 2.0 system is designed to facilitate client server and distributed computing environments, understanding the function of IBM's OS/2 Database Manager is even more crucial...read more