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Developing Business Applications with OpenStep™

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. OpenStep

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. What Is OpenStep?

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 3-14
    3. The Object Model

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 15-34
    4. The Foundation Framework

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 35-51
    5. The Application Kit

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 53-71
    6. NeXT’s OPENSTEP for Windows NT

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 73-84
    7. SunSoft’s Solaris OpenStep

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 85-97
    8. Building an Application

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 99-121
  3. Business Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. The Character of a Business Application

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 125-132
    3. Distributed Applications

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 133-161
    4. Database Applications

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 163-196
    5. World Wide Web Applications

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 197-207
  4. Development Topics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
    2. Development Topics

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 211-212
    3. Project Management and the Development Life Cycle

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 213-229
    4. Portability

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 231-236
    5. Testing and Debugging

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 237-243
    6. Performance

      • Nik Gervae, Peter Clark
      Pages 245-251

About this book

OpenStep is the software development environment co-developed by Sun and Next Computers. This book provides the first introduction to OpenStep and how it is used to build business applications for Next, Sun, and Windows NT systems. As well as covering the basics, it covers WebObjects (for developing world wide web applications) and the Enterprise Objects framework for developing database applications. No serious OpenStep developer will want to be without this book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Pacific Data Images, Inc., Palo Alto, USA

    Nik Gervae

  • Integrity Solutions, Inc., Eagan, USA

    Peter Clark

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Developing Business Applications with OpenStep™

  • Authors: Nik Gervae, Peter Clark

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1852-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94852-2Published: 13 December 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1852-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 289

  • Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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Softcover Book USD 99.00
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