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Web Development with TIBCO General Interface

Building AJAX Clients for Enterprise SOA

Anil Gurnani

Use TIBCO General Interface to build web applications with state-of-the-art performance and usability

TIBCO General Interface provides powerful tools and a framework to craft AJAX-based web applications that rival desktop applications in performance and usability. This is the only book that offers developers thorough guidance for using TIBCO’s award-winning open source tools to build interactive, high-performance GUIs and integrate them with leading server-side technologies. Experienced TIBCO General Interface developer Anil Gurnani focuses on applying General Interface in real-world production applications and presents numerous working examples that can easily be adapted for your existing sites and applications.

You’ll first walk through the fundamental concepts and techniques needed to build powerful General Interface clients. Next, you’ll dive into specific back-end technologies, mastering them through start-to-finish case study projects. Finally, drawing on his own experience building enterprise-class General Interface applications for the financial services industry, Gurnani illuminates advanced topics ranging from charting and collaboration

to application optimization. Coverage includes

• Integrating XML and XSL with TIBCO General Interface’s XML Mapping utility

• Extending General Interface widgets with object-oriented JavaScript

• Integrating with web services, databases, portals, and messaging systems: start-to-finish case study sample applications

• Integrating General Interface applications into service-oriented enterprises using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

• Using OpenAJAX Hub (TIBCO PageBus) to simplify collaboration among GUI components

Anil Gurnani’s book greatly augments the available information for developers learning and using TIBCO’s General Interface. …With this book, you will quickly be building General Interface applications, faster and easier than ever before.

—Michael Peachey, co-founder of General Interface and Director of User Experience, TIBCO Software

Anil Gurnani has written extensively on technical topics for many prestigious magazines. He is an adjunct at SCPS, New York University, where he teaches advanced courses focused on web and enterprise technologies including Core Java, JEE, and .NET. He is also an expert at managing large, global, multifunctional teams to architect and build complex distributed systems with a portfolio of front-end applications and back-end services.

About the CD-ROM The accompanying CD-ROM contains all source code files for working examples. Updated code and additional resources are available on a companion website.

Web Development/Ajax

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 3 Ratings

Poor organization and little of use above the std docs - 2009-06-09
Reviewer Rating:
The book provides very little in the way of examples on how to implement the TIBCO GI classes and components outside the standard methods covered in samples from the TIBCO web site. For example, the section on matrix functions has virtually no in-depth examples or information on how to use the libraries to do basic operations like working with the current matrix record. The author frequently says that the API documentation is very good, but the API lacks any examples on how to actually use the libraries and the book adds almost nothing to that lacking.

The samples are so similar to those available from the web site that they are of little use. The references to the code examples in the book are often listed as "see the sample". The book often provides no information on where in the samples to look, so finding where the author is referencing a particular function in the sample code is painful at best.

If the author spent more time covering what the API and standard docs do not provide, the book could be useful, but without that it is almost a collection of scattered thoughts and not a cohesive reference tool.

TIBCO GI is an excellent product and deserves a solid reference, but this book does little to fill that need. Hopefully, a second edition will be of more use and not a waste of money.

Good overall topical review but not enough depth - 2009-09-10
Reviewer Rating:
General Interface is a complex and powerful system. This book gives a good overview, covering a lot of topics of interest to the GI programmer. However, there is much much more that is left unsaid. As it is the only paperback available on the subject, it is worth reading. However, I would like to see the author update this book given all the changes to General Interface in the past year or two (GI, DWR, Dojo, etc.)

In depth information with examples - 2009-02-26
Reviewer Rating:
The online resources for TIBCO GI are good, but it's nice to have an actual hard copy book with real world examples at hand. The author is a frequent contributor the the online forums at [...]

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