Rating: 
Summary: I agree. Save your money.
Review: The online Sun tutorials do a much better job of explaining the fundamentals of RMI.This book also offers only a superficial (and incoherent)explanation of the internals of RMI. Too much time is spent discussing the design patterns of the contrived examples. One of the most glaring omissions is a class diagram showing the members of the RMI packages and a discussion of their relationships. The component diagrams are insufficient for a book promising the reader mastery of RMI.
Rating:
Summary: I agree. Save your money.
Review: The online Sun tutorials do a much better job of explaining the fundamentals of RMI. This book also offers only a superficial (and incoherent)explanation of the internals of RMI. Too much time is spent discussing the design patterns of the contrived examples. One of the most glaring omissions is a class diagram showing the members of the RMI packages and a discussion of their relationships. The component diagrams are insufficient for a book promising the reader mastery of RMI.
Rating: 
Summary: A Book By Someone Who Really Understands RMI
Review: To keep up on EJB developments, I follow an online EJB architecture discussion group sponsored by Sun. It includes most of the leading EJB technical gurus. Early on, a newbie wrote in to ask how best to get up to speed on EJB programming. Someone in the group replied with a short list. The first item on the list was: "Read everything Rickard Oberg writes." It impressed me at the time, since Rickard was a student and not the CTO of some leading EJB application server company. As time passed, however, and Oberg offered advice and provided coded solutions for more and more of the complex problems the group considered, I decided that the comment was absolutely correct. If you are a Java programmer, or want to be a Java programmer, and want to understand how really skilled Java programmers approach Java and EJB problems: Read everything Rickard Oberg writes.
Rating:
Summary: A Book By Someone Who Really Understands RMI
Review: To keep up on EJB developments, I follow an online EJB architecture discussion group sponsored by Sun. It includes most of the leading EJB technical gurus. Early on, a newbie wrote in to ask how best to get up to speed on EJB programming. Someone in the group replied with a short list. The first item on the list was: "Read everything Rickard Oberg writes." It impressed me at the time, since Rickard was a student and not the CTO of some leading EJB application server company. As time passed, however, and Oberg offered advice and provided coded solutions for more and more of the complex problems the group considered, I decided that the comment was absolutely correct. If you are a Java programmer, or want to be a Java programmer, and want to understand how really skilled Java programmers approach Java and EJB problems: Read everything Rickard Oberg writes.
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