CONTENIDO: Introducing activeX and ole - The component object model - Marshaling and type information - Automation - Persistence - Monikers - Uniform data transfer and connectable objects - Ole compound documents - ActiveX controls - Distributed Com - ActiveX, the Internet, and the world wide web.

Learn the behind-the-scenes tricks and techniques that will take your Visual Basic skills to the next level of programming excellence. Davis provides all the secrets readers need to create sophisticated, robust, full-featured, commercial quality Visual Basic applications.

Finally, OLE explained the right way--simply, elegantly and consistently. Well-organized to make sure readers understand simple aspects of OLE before moving on to more complex tasks, this book helps programmers understand OLE's organizing principles. Each chapter includes self-study programming exercises with detailed instructions.

"...(an) exceptionally balanced and informative text." --Rich Dragan The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a third generation method for specifying, visualizing, and documenting an object-oriented system under development. It unifies the three leading object-oriented methods and others to serve as the basis for a common, stable, and expressive object-oriented development notation. As the complexity of software applications increases, so does the developer's need to design and analyze applications before developing them. This practical introduction to UML provides software developers with an overview of this powerful new design notation, and teaches Java programmers to analyse and design object-oriented applications using the UML notation. + Apply the basics of UML to your applications immediately, without having to wade through voluminous documentation + Use the simple Internet example as a prototype for developing object-oriented applications of your own + Follow a real example of an Intranet sales reporting system written in Java that is used to drive explanations throughout the book + Learn from an example application modeled both by hand and with the use of Popkin Software's SA/Object Architect O-O visual modeling tool.

Learn how to use ActiveX as a tool for Web programming. This book explores ActiveX and the core concepts of COM and OLE, to provide the advanced developer with the fundamentals that are necessary to develop applications with object and interapplication linking.

In clear, comprehensive, easy-to-read chapters, you'll learn about definitions of groupware, the technologies at the heart of a functional groupware environment, groupware components - those that run on your desktop and those that work in the background, and how groupware fits into global computing - the Internet, intranets, HTML, Java, browsers, and more. Extensive examples introduce you to Microsoft technologies and groupware strategies. At the same time, Understanding Groupware in the Enterprise stays focused on the larger picture. That makes it invaluable for anyone who wants to understand how groupware fits into the business environment.

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