Large Scale Component Based Development

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Summary: Good insights for cbd in the enterprise
Review: My primary goal to read the book was to find out more about components, especially how to design EJB components for the enterprise. The author explains very well what a component is, the importance of component specifications, and how to apply component techniques. The book is not specific to any component infrastructure. It covers COM as well as EJBs.

I liked the detailed cbd modeling example at the end of the book as well as the author's list of useful resources on enterprise-scale application development.

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Summary: Very High Level View of CBD
Review: The book is well written and well organized but does not go into much detail. The book can be read quickly and gives a good high level view of component-based design. It does not offer rigorous definitions of the elements of CBD nor practical guidelines for factoring a design into components and services. It is certainly not "definitive". The book by Herzum and Sims is a better source for architects and developers.

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Summary: It's great book
Review: There are a lot of books discussing component-based development, but this is the first book I've read that details a complete methodology for making CBD work. I believe that professionals experts in distributed system development will recognize many of the practices, design principles, approaches, and simple common sense that they have applied in the past

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Summary: A good book for component based design
Review: This book is somewhat brief and high level, but it does a good job describing how components should interact within the enterprise. It is also gives a good description on how to define component interfaces.