COM-CORBA Interoperability

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Summary: The title should be: How to use IONA's COMet
Review: This book only helps if you use IONA's COMet to bridge. It tells you nothing useful about the two technologies, and like IONA, is way behind on the CORBA specs.

Rating:
Summary: The title should be: How to use IONA's COMet
Review: This book only helps if you use IONA's COMet to bridge. It tells you nothing useful about the two technologies, and like IONA, is way behind on the CORBA specs.

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Summary: A great book for the right reader
Review: This is a great book for the right reader. To the two reviewers below: yes, the title should have mentioned IONA's Orbit, BUT: friends, the title does correctly state that the book is about "interoperability", not about teaching basics of the two technologies! Your criticism is hardly justified as there is NO other piece of the off-the-shelf technology that addresses Com to Corba INTEROPERABILITY! It's amazing how people look for what they want to see rather than what the book is. IONA is the only vendor who offers a Com/Corba bridge, it's that simple. And if you need to use this functionality, this product is the one to look for--and this is book you need to learn it. The books covers all necessary points and after reading it one can start rather confidently on one's way to designing systems where both technologies--com and corba--are used together.

Rating:
Summary: A great book for the right reader
Review: This is a great book for the right reader. To the two reviewers below: yes, the title should have mentioned IONA's Orbit, BUT: friends, the title does correctly state that the book is about "interoperability", not about teaching basics of the two technologies! Your criticism is hardly justified as there is NO other piece of the off-the-shelf technology that addresses Com to Corba INTEROPERABILITY! It's amazing how people look for what they want to see rather than what the book is. IONA is the only vendor who offers a Com/Corba bridge, it's that simple. And if you need to use this functionality, this product is the one to look for--and this is book you need to learn it. The books covers all necessary points and after reading it one can start rather confidently on one's way to designing systems where both technologies--com and corba--are used together.

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Summary: COM-CORBA Interoperability
Review: Very disappointed with the book. The main attraction for me buying the book was the evaluation CD it is accompanied with. Unfortunately, one has to procure the license key from IONA Technologies for the ORBIX intallation. I have sent several emails to IONA regarding this but have not heard anything for days. What a waste of my money!