Beth Gold-Bernstein, Lexington, MA
David Marca, Marlborough, MA

Published July, 1997 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1998, 350 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-890195-3
$44.99

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This book contains a complete, proven set of tools and techniques for reducing the risks and increasing the manageability of client/server projects.

The book contains extensive coverage of the organizational and management issues involved in successful client/server planning, followed by an exclusive method for modeling adaptive client/server systems that are business-driven, scaleable, and enable change. Among the many powerful real-world tools this book provides are: specific decision criteria for choosing technical components of a distributed system; methods and guidelines for partitioning data and processing across processors and locations; and techniques for performing traffic analysis even before one line of code is written.



Learn the right ways to design multi-tier, enterprise client/server systems.

• A step-by-step approach to building client/server systems that are repeatable, and help organizations define and limit risk.

• A new, event-based method for defining requirements that easily maps to a distributed processor architecture.

• Foreword by Ed Yourdon. mong the many powerful real-world tools this book provides are: specific decision criteria for choosing technical components of a distributed system; methods and guidelines for partitioning data and processing across processors and locations; and techniques for performing traffic analysis even before one line of code is written.