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Summary: Had to comment after seeing the previous"review"
Review: First, these are supposed to be reviews on books, not technologies. What one thinks of DCOM is irrelevant to the quality of this or that book that treats it. And it just so happens that this particular book is very good. Now, again, this has nothing to do with whether or not you want to use DCOM.
Second, DCOM is not dead. It's still part of Windows and is very much available for you to use. I would say that it's not a very robust method of networking, but it is a very nice way to structure your systems within a local context.
Bottomline: if you need to use DCOM, this book is a very good--extensive, thorough, and highly readable--tutorial on it. And a side comment: think before posting comments here. It's about books, not what the books talk about.
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Summary: Fantastic Second Book
Review: great book for those that already know the workings of com/dcom, but want a better understanding of how things work under the hood (and way under the hood). this book is not VC++ 6.0 or ATL3.0 oriented - but you'll need to be pretty proficient in both or this is not your best use of funds. if you want the rest of the story behind marshalling, esp custom, std, and type lib, then is the best book i have found. certainly not a replacement for grimes - but certainly a notch or two above many of the WROX/Grimes products in both completeness and correctness.
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Summary: Not too helpful...
Review: If I hadn't already had some COM knowledge, this book would have been extremely frustrating. I found the topics poorly, and in many cases, inadequately explained. I often had to refer to other books to get the full picture. I would not recommend this book. There are better ones out there.
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Summary: This is a *DEAD* technology
Review: Micro$oft is famous for its ability to push out new development technologies. The reason behind this planned obsolesence is obvious, every time they come out with something new people will have to open their wallets to "keep up."DCOM is just another disposable technology. As such, it was a complete failure; one that the marketing folks at M$ have tried to bury as quickly as possible under an avalanche of .NET hype. DCOM was hard to port because, like COM, it is based on a binary standard (i.e. a standard that changes when you leave x86 and go to 64-bit RISC). Not only that, but DCOM doesn't support distributed transactions. Worst of all, DCOM is a very, very complicated technology to use. Three strikes... YOU'RE OUT! The half-wit MBAs at Micro$oft realized their mistake and have abandoned DCOM, leaving it forever in the backwaters where the only record of its sorry existence are stupid books like this. I have no idea why someone would want to buy this book. Folks, this is a dead technology. It is no more. It is an ex-techology. If you buy this book, you are lying to yourself. This book will sit an gather dust, unless you can find more productive uses for it...like burning it to stay warm.
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Summary: This is a *DEAD* technology
Review: The best of course is Richard Grimes, professional DCOM programming.
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Summary: It's 2/3rds COM, and only about 1/3rd DCOM
Review: The book is well written, and seems to be well organized, but less than a third of the actual pages of the book are dedicated to true DCOM.. the rest is spent wasting time on rehashing COM issues, and implementation in Java and VB.. Frankly, I don't care. I think a majority of the COM programmers out there are concerned with C or C++, and to waste that much of the book on the topic, is really inappropriate.. They should do their own COM book, and then do a DCOM book if the wish to do it that way.. The information presented about DCOM is quite good, hence the 3 stars, but since so much time is wasted, I would suggest a different book to get your intro to DCOM..
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Summary: Not too helpful...
Review: This book provides the reader with the fundamentals of COM andthe understanding of the theory behind COM. This book received the toprating as the best computer book of the 20th century. END
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Summary: Top Ten book
Review: This is one of my ten most recommended I.T. books. It is very good for people who want to learn the heart of COM programming. I recommend this book for all developers and architects both beginning and advanced.
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