Books on client/server computing are often dry and academic. Not so with the Client/Server Survival Guide, now in its third edition. The trio of authors--Jeri Edwards, Dan Harkey, and Robert Orfali--make the topic interesting with a down-to-earth style that covers the informational landscape without boring the reader to tears. Numerous nontechnical diagrams drive home important concepts quickly.

Enterprise Computing with Objects: From Client/Server Environments to the Internet is a broad but useful survey of the growing role for object-oriented technologies in today's enterprise systems, including the Internet. Written for both managers and developers, the book does a good job of presenting information without the excessive jargon often found in software-engineering texts.

This book is a comprehensive guide to Java distributed computing. It assumes the reader is an experienced Java programming, but has little experience with network programming and distributed objects. This book covers networking, distributed computing architectures, advanced Java facilities, security, data management, and specific distributed computing techniques including sockets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java servlets, Microsoft's Distributed Component Model (DCOM), and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).

This lively, topical, all-inclusive guide is designed to help readers navigate through the new distributed objects technology. By targeting the key issues, it offers the information essential to make intelligent choices. Provides a distributed objects roadmap, defines distributed components and situates distributed objects within the client/server field. Details CORBA and its products.