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Summary: Good book, but...
Review: I bought this book to learn more about CORBA technology in JAVA environment. This book is good in teaching you about the current existing technology in the distributed computing environment. Unfortunately, the examples in the book didn't work on my Windows NT environment. The problem was in the ORB installation. When it gets to more in-depth knowledge to CORBA, it began to be boring.I know that I am a newbie to CORBA but I think one can explain this technology in a more interesting and exciting way.
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Summary: Best introduction to this difficult subject
Review: This book is a tremendous introduction to the issues of client/server programming in Java and Corba.Especially useful are the performance studies. The book is comprehensive with luminous insights on every page.
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Summary: A very good book to start didtributive computing
Review: I can see lot of people frustation about this good book. I think people complaining miss understood the purpose of this book. This book is meant to give you a quick overview of lot of technologies with practical information and examples. Yes it definitely does not cover the complex issues associated with CORBA or DCOM, but you can start writing distributed objects right away with the help of this book. That is the pupose of a good book, after that you learn things by experience. One last note, please remember it is not necessary that a good book is good for all audience.
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Summary: waste of time and money
Review: there are MUCH better books out there (like Pedrick's Programming with VisiBroker) than this piece of junk. the codes in the book just WON'T work. and don't expect much help from the authors' web site.
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Summary: This book is BAD!
Review: The author is more like a car dealer rather than a technical writer, the book is hollow and this guy used to write some volume also very bad, such as Client/Server programming. I regret so much that I waste some time on this. This book is junk.
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Summary: Excellent detailed info. on JAVA/CORBA implementation.
Review: I used this book to complete a project with JDK2/CORBA/Oracle 8.0/Borland JBuilder after an attempted JDK2/Servlet/Oracle 8.0 implementation. The book gives you everything you need for a JAVA/CORBA implementation. Excellent!
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Summary: HARD
Review: many pages for a not identified content, the examples have to be deciphered .I have still no a good idea about what corba is after this reading.
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: I got this book to jump into CORBA and this book wasted my time and I spent hours in trying to understand what the authors were trying to say. They were short on expalanations and instead concentrated on making statements. This, in my and my friends collective opinion, is not a book but rather a waste of precious time and it is more of some sort of notes that the authors themselves can understand. You can never find what you want to about CORBA and even if you do, you can get an idea of the concept but not total comprehension. In either way you have to throw this book away and get a new one.
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Summary: OK Book
Review: Only concerned with Inprise's ORB. Is that what CORBA is all about? No! I want a CORBA book that teaches me CORBA, not visibroker.
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Summary: Incomplete, but a good intro
Review: This book gives a well-prepared introduction to CORBA. In that role, it succeeds admirably. Be warned, this book should not be considered a complete overview. There was a lot of info left out: error handling, optimization, ORB configuration and others. But, if you do want an intro into the world of CORBA programming, and just happen to know how to program Java, this is where you should start.
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