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I bought this book, opened it once, and put it back on the shelf. It provides so little depth and detail that it is almost useless. For a brand new technical person I'm not sure this book would be valuable, but it does provide a high level oversight of the workings of the system and would be useful for a Project Manager new to the PeopleSoft area.

Having been to the training sessions for Peoplesoft technical training, this book is a good summary for those who have already been through the training. However if you want to pick up this book and expect to become an Administrator you will be disappointed.

Overall a pretty good guide.

I'm new to PeopleSoft
I'm writing an interface to the PeopleSoft to
interface with our system.
This book is the best I have found so far.

I feel that this book needs to be updated. It makes so many statements that even a newbie such as I can tell are outdated, that the entire content of the book is cast into doubt. How can I tell whether or not I should believe any given sentence? I find myself in the position of needing to independently verify almost every statement, and who has time for that? I came here hoping for a newer edition that I could feel more confident about, and am very disappointed not to find one. Judging from other references (e.g. the Solaris 8 "ONC+ Reference Manual," at docs.sun.com -- on the topic of using RPC with threads, for example), the technology has changed over the last 12 years, to the point where I for one don't trust this book.

This is a very good reference book for anyone who wants to know how to use the power of RPC. It covers every little detail and explains some very useful tips that can't be found any where else. Ofcourse the author has assumed a fair knowledge of networking and C but you can't blame him for that 'cos anyone who attempts to use RPC wont be able to do that without the knowledge of these two.

The book fills a gap in RPC knowhow, that was much needed in the market place. It is in my humble opinion an excellent text on ONC RPC for UNIX (principally Solaris, but doesnt seem to be limited in any way). I did not find any PC specific solutions, but if one uses ONC RPC the XDR message format should ensure cross platform portability IMHO. I have only encountered one other good source on this subject, but I will not do Mr Bloomer a disservice by mentioning that book here .The author has made a sizeable investment of energy in trying to explain a complex and intricate RPC paradigm. The book gives examples of how to do both simple and some of the more complex things with rpc. I was particularly grateful for the author putting in examples and explanations of how to integrate with event-loops of GUIs, and to also how to do i/o multiplexing in a single threaded application. This book helped me tremendously during intricate debugging sessions to understand some of my problems. I have nothing but praise for the authors efforts. I salute you sir....

The book is ok. Its not great. You can get something out of it ...

Two main issues:
(1) If you are going to use this book with any BW versions 3.x, you are going to have trouble. This is so because (1.1) some of the screenshots are out of date, and (1.2) there are somethings that 2.x did and used that are not done and used anymore - for example the CS Unit of Measure is no longer used. If you dont know that, you will become old sitting in front of your screen trying to figure out why something is not working.

(2) The books fails to omit some major steps. For example, in going from Ch.4 to Ch. 5 - Queries, you need to load some other data. At no point is this mentioned. I mean its quite obvious that more data needs to be entered, otherwise, Ch. 5 aint going to work - but thats just the problem - its too obvious. Sometimes - when we have been behind the screen for too many hours, we fail to see things precisely because they are TOO obvious. So ... you can wind up spending too much time futzing around trying to figure out why something is not working.

Disappointing in both structure and content; surprising thing, cosidering that the authors come with substantial credentials.

It is more of an end-user self-training package targeting the individuals that want to memorize and troubleshoot their way through the setup rather that providing a step-by-step business case driven scenario.

Unfortunately the release that make the subject of the book is already obsolete (well, this is not authors' fault).

The CD-ROM attached to it is of little if any use;

With this book, you can seat down in front of the terminal and begin using BW right away.

On the other hand, you better have some experience building Data Warehouses prior to using BW. There might be 2 or 3 ways to build a business solution and this book is not necessarily a good source for "best practices" or architecture concepts. A good book that could complement this one is "Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse".

I use this book frequently when programming. It is not a beginner book for OLE DB. But it does provide excellent examples in many instances of coding.

this is the only book I could find on OLE DB besides SDK docs, so for that alone I am happy to have it. I did find his step by step approach to developing an oledb app was very helpful, once I had gathered enough knowledge from other sources about COM & some basic Ole db knowledge. this is a good book if you are an intermediate at com and have a basic familiarity with oledb and of course have a good grasp of c++; it was at that point that I found the book very helpful. But plan on reading other materials first to get your base understanding of com & ole db before benefitting from this book (and it was annoying to see comments stating that memset was allocating memory). This book does fill a good niche though to help you get from a base understanding of ole db to a very strong intermediate level (helped me do that anyway) and it saved me a lot of time making that leap that I couldn't have done without reading this book.

This is one of the best books on OLE DB 1.1 that I have come accross. I wish there was an OLE DB 2.0 version of this book!

I have great respect for the author of this book, as she undoubtedly knows her stuff (hence two stars, not one), however, she would have been well advised to have employed an editor before the final draft was published. The intent of each section is lost in a fog of cross-referencing and over-explanation. Get this book if: a) It's a required text b) You're a genius with time to kill c) You're extremely patient and keen to learn d) If the latest edition has been substantially edited

Althought the book is very thorough, the style of writing makes it very heavy going. I found it comparable to reading a book of train timetables, imformative but boring. the diagrams tend to be abstract in the extreme.

Jean definately knows her content well, and she gets a little too excited at times.

The content is very consise and detailed. However due to this, the book requires close attention while reading (so don't read this too late at night).

I feel the other reviews on this book are rather harsh, and I must admit that the first few chapters tend to be badly written, but the rest are ok.

Micro$oft is famous for its ability to push out new development technologies. The reason behind this planned obsolesence is obvious, every time they come out with something new people will have to open their wallets to "keep up."

DCOM is just another disposable technology. As such, it was a complete failure; one that the marketing folks at M$ have tried to bury as quickly as possible under an avalanche of .NET hype.

DCOM was hard to port because, like COM, it is based on a binary standard (i.e. a standard that changes when you leave x86 and go to 64-bit RISC). Not only that, but DCOM doesn't support distributed transactions. Worst of all, DCOM is a very, very complicated technology to use. Three strikes... YOU'RE OUT!

The half-wit MBAs at Micro$oft realized their mistake and have abandoned DCOM, leaving it forever in the backwaters where the only record of its sorry existence are stupid books like this.

I have no idea why someone would want to buy this book. Folks, this is a dead technology. It is no more. It is an ex-techology. If you buy this book, you are lying to yourself. This book will sit an gather dust, unless you can find more productive uses for it...like burning it to stay warm.

If you are the kind of people who wish to download source code as it first appears on the web and if you are the kind of people in a hurry to get into the act with all the issues as soon as possible, then this book is for you.

The author have not stopped with explaining COM, DCOM and all other technologies as a toolkit. He has shown how to put them all to use in building real solutions to real problem. I liked the way he had simulated the scenario when you face trouble, when you start building systems that stretch over an entire enterprise, and how things get more complicated, and how difficult it become to deliver flexible, reliable and timely solutions.

If you are starting a new project which involves C++, ATL, COM, DCOM and other technologies like MTS, MSMQ and IIS, and if you use services of ADO, then with this book you are already there into the next phase of your project.

I would have given a four star if this book have not dealt with some of the topics which I think it is premature to implement in the industry when the services are actually in their beta release.

The title of this book is deceiving. Writing enterprise software for Win32 involves a lot of COM based technology. This book is an excellent introduction for all these technologies provided that the person already has some fundamental knowledge of basic COM (Hence the "Professional" in the title). I have not seen a better book out there that both addresses the technologies AND has working samples of those technologies. Most COM/DCOM/COM+ books out there today start with rehashes of Dale Rogerson's Inside COM book... I am tired of seeing all the books out there that has the exact same explanation of connection points, the exact explanation of IUnknown, and basically the exact same 3 introductory chapters!. Learning COM is a two-pronged process. First, you must be able to get comfortable with the technology (hence, Rogerson's book), then you have to learn the services built around the technology (This book does that!). I can see why this book got such poor reviews, because those people reading the book were not ready for the onslaught of information in this book (believe me, there's more useful information in these 400+ pages than there is in most 600-1000+ page COMeverything books).

This was the textbook chosen by my educational institute to introduce us to PowerBuilder and Object-Oriented Fundamentals. I'd have to say it fails on each of those counts.

You're not introduced to PowerScript until nearly halfway through the book, the code is NOT laid out in a step-by-step fashion AT ALL after the first chapter or so (and even then), there are coding errors all over the place, and the finished product that you can download has all sorts of inconsistencies with what's in the book (it's as though they kept the application the same from PowerBuilder 5 and never bothered to check the new text against it or something).

I'm in the process right now of trying to reverse engineer the example from Que's website and compare my own to figure out what snippets the book has omitted that are preventing my application from functioning properly. Thank you, William Heys, for depriving me of some much-needed sleep. :P~

Its a very good book but I don't think it targets beginners as much as it claims to. There is a tutorial that runs through the book but it doesn't give concise instructions of the steps one should follow. If these were clearly indicated I would give the book 5/5. I feel that one should know a little about Powerbuilder before attempting to approach this book. However it is so detailed that it takes a while to complete, this can be percieved as a good or a bad thing.

For someone who just wants to learn the PowerBuilder painters, the other books are fine. The strength of this book is that it teaches you to build in PowerBuilder the RIGHT way...by building in an object-oriented way. Most new PowerBuilder developers know just enough to shoot themselves in the foot. This book takes more effort, but its examples are much closer to real development than the other intro books I have reviewed.

I unfortunately must echo the sentiments of other reviewers of this book: it's a tangled mess that leads nowhere. If you're already an expert at CORBA programming, there's an off-chance that you might find something useful in this book. If you're a novice, forget it.

Really difficult book to read. I found that the writer has only a few difficult examples added to the text.

To be honest, the book is not an introduction to CORBA. The content is not well organized. The first topic of the book is already advance topics. Also there is not enough explaniation for some difficult points. However, the content will be suitable for reader who is already comforable with CORBA (Java and C). I like the section of 'E-commerce'. The code is good.

My PC runs on Windows 95B and it locks up with this CD-ROM. The support people sent me a patch for it, but it still doesn't work. They know it doesn't work with Windows 95, yet they still sell the book.

This book covers the basics somewhat well. It is good for beginners. It includes simple functionality to pull data from a table. But beware, the book is already outdated, and does not cover the most recent version of Des/Dev2000. In addition, it could be frustrating to use due to the syntax errors in the book's examples. On the bright side there is the CD.

The CD samples actually work, and contradict the poor code in the book. If you want to see how Developer2000 works, review the CD, and then take your pen to the book, make changes, and submit your edits (and bill for your time) to the Publisher. However, this is all contingent upon the fact that you can load the CD. I spent two days attempting to install the CD... even when I have used Oracle and Dev2000 before.

A CD tip for the USER that the book won't tell you: the Dev2000 Demo CD only runs on Win95.

A CD tip for the AUTHOR and PUBLISHER: Everybody does not run Win95.

Overall, the book is below average since it's examples cover only the most basic of reports and functionality. Maybe, you could teach a college class with this, but it is impractical in business. Who prints a report based on a simple join anymore?

I am looking for this book that comes with a version 2.0 CD. I managed to find one with version 1.0 CD from Singapore's Borders Bookstore. Can you help me to find the one I want?

Thank you.

This book was purchased during the execution of an MQSeries project. It was opened once, put down and never referred to again. Perhaps as an introduction to those who have no background in queuing or distributed processing it would be helpful.

This book is for managers that want to have some understanding of MQSeries. It just covers some old use cases. I am a Java programmer and I was looking for some inside to MQSeries, patterns, etc. No in this book. I did not even finnished the first chapter. I browse to the book and I quickly realized that it was not for me. I made my manager happy by making a present. Now it is being display at his desk. I gave it 3 starts because it might have a used for some people and there is really not too many good books on the subject.

I am a little manager. I micro-manage a technical group by reading books such as this one. It is great because I can now use all the buzz word I learned from this book to kiss up the upper management. Moreover, I can also intimidate people under me everyday with what I read from here! Yes, I do! If you want to be like me, buy this book!