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Summary: Quite big but good.
Review: This is a huge book. But as I started reading, every thing started making sense. I have heard/read some nasty things about the "runnability" of some example code. But that does not bother me from giving a good rating. Because all I am after is only the concepts not some reusable sample code. People who might use CORBA may also need to pickup conepts related to their application server environment as well. It will be good if authors can include a review of all application servers that incorporate Java and CORBA in to the middleware solutions.
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Summary: Very useful for Java/CORBA developers.
Review: Concepts are very well explained and the examples are very appropriate and useful in real-life application development. There is lot of useful java code in the examples.
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Summary: The Best
Review: I loved the first edition, and the second is even better.This book has everything: Opinions, lots of code, compartive code, theory, more code, comics, more code, evaluation methods, more code, and lots of neat toys to play with on the CD. Even if you don't care about CORBA, you should buy this book. Its explanations of the servlet, JDBC, and RMI API's are the best I've found. The discussion of Enterprise Java Beans is far ahead of the tools that will make them possible.
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Summary: Too verbose to be of practical use
Review: Orfali and Harkey tend to be too expansive. While this could be OK if what you're looking for is detail, the time needed to get a simple answer from the book on any given question, makes it prohibitive to use the book as a reference. Even as a textbook, the book is too verbose and details things in such excruciating detail that turns the hurried reader away. People who are in a hurry to get a jump start or quick answers should avoid this book.
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Summary: Yes, they are Robert Orfali & Dan Harkey
Review: It's simple, clear and cool! This book is very very good starting point of CORBA. But that's all. People who read this book will be very very busy, because they give us too many resource.
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Summary: An Excellent Book for Beginners in the Subject
Review: A good book. But still the first chapter and the chapter on sockets and other java concepts could have been avoided. Some of the cartoons were really outlandish. Still it is the best book to get a start in CORBA
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Summary: This book is great!
Review: I buy every book these guys write, and they seem to churn them out pretty quickly. Their writing style is informal and to the point. The martian theme does not get in the way. Their use of graphics is *truly exceptional*.
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Summary: good ideas but code is not for UNIX people!!!
Review: Let me be critical. This is not a serious book. I had a tremendous difficulty trying to run the examples on UNIX (IRIX), and I finally gave up. The authors obviously had WindowsNT in mind when they wrote this book. I finally could have some code compiled under NT. I am pretty sure most users have given up trying to run the examples in the book. Finally, I did not find the book as invaluable as when I first looked at it. This is my opinion but I believe many users have the same feeling. Zebulon
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Summary: Great book for getting up and running quickly
Review: The only computer book that I have been so impressed with (and grateful for) that I've written a review. Within a week of buying it I was putting the final touches on a large client/server setup using Corba. The book was easy to read and you can locate information quickly. After reading through every Corba book I could find, I found this to be best.
If I could have anything changed, I'd drop the sections comparing Corba to other solutions so maybe the book could be a bit cheaper and easier to lug around.
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Summary: Attempting to stop the unstopable
Review: Very biased unfounded claims about Java RMI's future. The practicioners of the old paradigm try desperately to throw dirt on the new one. They never established why doing CORBA with java would be a good idea. CORBA fans might find it very biased towards Visigenic
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