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Summary: Excellent Treatment of the Subject; A Must For Designers
Review: I am an instructor for Visigenic Software, Inc. (now Inprise), so I have extensive exposure to training materials and information in this subject area. I received a copy of this book several months ago, but only recently got the time to read it thoroughly. Wow. This book is terrific in many ways. Firstly, it covers the "behind the scenes" aspects of the OMG process and makes numerous references to the way things happen in the standards world. This is only lightly treated in other texts. Next, with most of the vendor-specific dependencies removed, I discovered a number of techniques for making an implementation more independent of the ORB. Thirdly, there is a terrific coverage of the POA -- the serious OA of the near future. Finally, the last several chapters are devoted to the issues in producing a *real* implementation. I found a treasure trove of information relevant to deployment and systems architecture. I have not seen a book as well-rounded and practical as this one. If you are concerned about actually *building* systems using CORBA and Java and not just getting a trivial example to work, then this is the one for you!
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I found this book extremely useful. This book is good both for mid level and advanced programmers. The chapters on Naming Service and Trader Service were very useful and well explained. I liked the way the book is organized.
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Summary: If you're developing CORBA with Java, this is the book.
Review: I found this book to be very useful. We teach a number of CORBA classes in Java and C++, and so far this is the best one I've seen for developers. Lots of code examples and good explanations.
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Summary: Don't waste your money. Look for something else.
Review: I read this book from starting, when I started trying to use the excercises by downloading from the authors recommended site it was failing beacuse all the programs author wrote was using Visibroker's ORB implementation(not with the Java1.2 ORB implementation). The language author used merely confuses you when you try to understand the program from his explaination given above each implementaion of the program. You can't even understand where the implementation of the program started or ended this is the case with his examples in 8th chapter of this book which also has lot of printing mistakes with missing underscores "_". I am tired of trying to read and then spending half an hour on understanding what he actually meant(Big waste of time). Some times you may wonder whether he is trying to explain you or confuse you. Please look for some other good book, I lost money but you can save yours.Thank You
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Summary: Huh???
Review: I'm a Microsoft COM/DCOM person, very technical, needing to understand the alternative technology: CORBA. This book spends time explaining the OMG organizational structure, committee procedures, etc and when you get to the more technical sections you forget you left the prior section. I couldn't grasp the concepts or map them into anything I know. It lacks a clear direction or teaching methodology. They guys at Visigenic recommended this book, but I give it a thumbs down. When I was through the first few chapters I said, "Huh???" and promptly returned to book for a refund.
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Summary: Perfect for Professionals
Review: If you are competent in Java and have experience using CORBA in a C/C++ environment, this is THE book to read! Our company has a large number of developers who have been using CORBA in a C++ environment who are being thrust into the Java world very quickly, and this is the perfect book for them. Unlike any of Orfali's books (practically the only other author in the arena it seems), you won't find cartoon martians or management-level pep-talks, or discussions of OTHER distributed environments (i.e. DCOM) in this essential volume.
On the flip side, if you are new to CORBA, or have no experience in Java, you will need more background to get the most of this book.
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Summary: Code isn't easy to follow
Review: In the opening chapters, it is difficult to see what code is generated and what code needs to be written. After trying to use this book for a few hours, I turned to the Client/Server Programming with Java and Corba book by Orfali and Harkey and quickly was up and running. The Vogel book just isn't as clear.
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Summary: Fine Book - Must For Designers
Review: Nice examples Excellent Coherence Explaining all 3 Joe, Orbix & Visibroker is much useful Very helpful in learning CORBA from Java
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Summary: Save Your Dollars $$, Do Not Buy this Book.
Review: Not Good. Full of small errors.
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Summary: Not good for teaching
Review: This book is good for the expert or people who are faimiliar with the CORBA. Altough the authors are the professional programmer, they need to pratice how to teach the audiences. If you go to the Java web site, they will describe you step by step. This book is not a good programming. It is only the theoritical book.
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