The Awesome Power of PowerJ

Tim Hatton
  • May 1998
  • ISBN 9781884777530
  • 378 pages
  • printed in black & white
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PowerJ is the bridge between the rapid application development world of PowerBuilder and the multiplatform world of Java. The Awesome Power of PowerJ show you how you can write Java programs the very first day with PowerJ, even if you don't know Java. Through a hands-on approach that makes liberal use of figures and code snippets, you will learn how to use PowerJ to build effective Java applets and applications.

When you're an IS manager considering Java, a webmaster looking for a fast way to write and deploy Java code or a developer with a hot Java project, you need this book.

What's inside:

  • Overviews of Java and PowerJ basics
  • How to use PowerJ Standard Objects
  • How to use Standard Datatype Classes and Databases
  • Building applications for the Internet
  • How to use Java Beans and ActiveX
  • And much, much more

about the technology

Welcome to the world of Java programming using PowerJ, a Rapid Application Development tool from Powersoft, the makers of PowerBuilder. With PowerJ, Powersoft does for Java programming what they did for client-server development with PowerBuilder - they make it easy and fast.

what's inside

  • Overviews of Java and PowerJ basics
  • How to use PowerJ Standard Objects
  • How to use Standard Datatype Classes and Databases
  • Building applications for the Internet
  • How to use Java Beans and ActiveX
  • And much, much more

about the reader

This book is for beginning and intermediate Java developers who want to learn or get up to speed on developing Java applications using PowerJ. It is also for those who do not know Java, but still want to be able to deliver Java applications. PowerJ excels at teaching you Java as you go.

about the author

Tim Hatton is a principal of CreativeSoft, Inc., an early user of the Power++ product upon which the PowerJ interface is based. He has many years of experience as a developer of real-world applications using PowerSoft products.

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