Visual Cafe for Java Explorer: Maximize Your Object-Oriented Programming Skills to Create Database Applets and Applications Using Java [With a CDROM F

by Ed Tittel and William B. Brogden

Professional programmers can use "Visual Cafe Pro" to leverage their object-oriented programming skills to master Java and create applications that interact with popular databases, such as MS Access,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157610219X
• ISBN13: 9781576102190
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent excellent book

This is a great book. It achieves the difficult balance of being readible for a beginner (perhaps someone with good programming experience but not a lot of Java), but also providing the depth for an expert.Lot's of very good examples with good explanations.This book has great information, not just about database access, but Java programming and Visual Cafe in general. I will keep this book in easy reach of my computer.

What Version?

I echo the other reviewer's frustration that few publishers mention the version of the tool their books cover in the hopes that developers will buy their books even when they are obsolete. This is predatory and misleading, and I hope that developers will boycott publishers who evince this policy.For version 2.0, the book is very readable and comprehensive, but with the release of version 2.1, and now 2.5 of Visual Cafe, it is obsolete. I look forward to a new edition that tells us it covers that version.

First JAVA book I actually read COVER to COVER!!

I've been a programmer for like seven years, but kinda new to Java. The smarts I got from this book primarily with several others as references allowed me to use VCJDDE 2.5 to do prototypes that totally impressed the powers that be at my job. Sure there's some problems and errors, but most of them are because I was using 2.5 and the book was written for 2.0. But hey, it makes you explore the code and flex your problem-solving muscles. Bottom line: Take a cheapie class at the community college, buy the software (hopefully you can expense it), and BUY THIS BOOK!! Just make sure your shop's on an NT platform, because all the database middleware doo-dads don't go anyplace else. A bit of advice: The software has a 30-day moneyback deal going, so you can buy it, learn it, demo it, and expense it. So suggest putting some of your existing processes that rely upon MS Access or Excel for record keeping on the Intranet. This tool can create a basic "look at the data" interface for about any database in about 10 minutes, which you demo to whoever's in charge of the ISO900x/SEICMM effort, and that is that. Good luck.

Terrific Book

This is the best book I've read so far about Visual Cafe for Java. It is very helpful in showing how to use its features. Right away the author shows how to make useful programs and useful GUI's. None of this "Hello World" uselessness. If you program in Java -- use Visual Cafe! If you use Visual Cafe -- Buy this book!

Excellent Overview of Visual Cafe: Database Dev Edition

This is an excellent programming book for beginners to advanced java programmers who want to use Visual Cafe as their IDE tool. The emphasis of this book is not java, but on learning the benefits and advantages of using Visual Cafe. There are plenty of good books on java, but this is the first book that I have liked that explains and demonstrates the capabilities of using Visual Cafe.