Corba Design Patterns

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Summary: Waste of your time & money...
Review: One of the most useless technical books one can lay hands on...[Guess who bought 3 copies of this book and gave it to the engineering team - the CTO of a now defunct dot-com that I used to work for!!]

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Summary: some information, some fluff
Review: Some of the book is informative, especially the "meaty" parts from chapter 4 to 6 regarding application design patterns. At the same time, I think there are too many uninformative pages. The lead-up to the pattern descriptions, 78+ pages, is too long, and some of the descriptions seem to wrap well-known concepts ("Framework", "Object Request Broker").

Read this in the store if you can. Buy it on company money otherwise :-).

Rating:
Summary: Lacking in substance
Review: This book contains titles and summaries for several useful CORBA design patterns. However, on a closer read you will find that it does not contain nearly the depth and breadth of the Gang of Four Design Patterns book. I would love to see someone actually provide detail for the Participants, Consequences, and Implementation sections that were so well documented in the GOF book, but conspicuously absent in this one. What an obvious rush-to-market to jump on the Design Pattern frenzy.

Rating:
Summary: Waste of your time & money...
Review: Yes, having read the GOF book, this one does not stand up to it's level of detail and many of the patterns are not that great. However, I am surprised by how harsh some of the reviews are. The review of system scale and the relation to level of pattern usage was worthwhile and some patterns, while people will say "duh, how obvious", are decent intros for those who do not have in depth knowledge. I would recommend this book to newbies in OO and CORBA and not to a seasoned OO developer. That's the differentiation that needs to be made. Read Enterprise CORBA by Slama et al if you're looking for more detail on CORBA in general. If you want a high level review of patterns and how they apply to CORBA level OO, this book is fine.

Rating:
Summary: Not too technical
Review: Yes, having read the GOF book, this one does not stand up to it's level of detail and many of the patterns are not that great. However, I am surprised by how harsh some of the reviews are. The review of system scale and the relation to level of pattern usage was worthwhile and some patterns, while people will say "duh, how obvious", are decent intros for those who do not have in depth knowledge. I would recommend this book to newbies in OO and CORBA and not to a seasoned OO developer. That's the differentiation that needs to be made. Read Enterprise CORBA by Slama et al if you're looking for more detail on CORBA in general. If you want a high level review of patterns and how they apply to CORBA level OO, this book is fine.