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Summary: Great Book
Review: If you are a COM programmer, I compare this book with Don Box's Essential COM, or Guy's Inside DCOM book. Excellent resource. I actually read this book some time ago, but never got to writing a review. IMHO, Today this is the authoritive book on CORBA in the market.
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Summary: There is no other word except "definitive".
Review: If you are a professional programmer in the distributed OO arena then there is no other book that you should obtain first. This book covers everything that I had to learn the hard way, and a lot more!
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Summary: A very good book
Review: It's expensive, no doubt, but it worth. I'd pay $55 only for chapters from 4 to 14 (but the following chapters are more interesting and they are really advanced). There is no other CORBA book that compares with this. It's advanced, it's detailed, it's WELL WRITTEN (not all smart guys can explain to others their thoughts, isn't it?) it's simple a very good book.
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Summary: An Instant Classic
Review: Just like the venerable Unix Network Programming and the Gang of Four Design Patterns books, this book is destined to be a classic. I honestly wish I'd had this book four years ago when I started working with CORBA for the first time because life would've been SO much easier. The authors have distilled the CORBA specs, mixed in some historical perspective and design rationale, and put in a heavy does of serious experience to come up with a book that simplifies my life with its completeness.If you're going to do CORBA, or you just want to learn about it, and you're a hands-on, no-nonsense person, then this book is for you. It won't replace the OMG specs, but it makes them MUCH easier to understand.
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Summary: Most excellent
Review: Looks like all 5 stars are well deserved. This is the first book I've seen where the author actually describes CORBA concepts using C++ without intrusion of vendor specifc garbage. If you are a person who simply likes to copy paste code and expect it to run then turn away. This is the only book out there that clearly explains "Why some things are done in a certain way" which is very important for peace of mind.
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Summary: An excellent sourcebook for CORBA, even for Java.
Review: My side of the CORBA equation is all written in Java. Nevertheless, This book has a tremendous amount of information about CORBA that is applicable to any programming language. It provides much detailed information about CORBA itself, the low-level protocol, message structures, object references, IIOP, etc.; more than any of the other major references that I have seen (Orfali & Harkey, Vogel & Duddy). Again, for a Java programmer, this book provides excellent insight into what is really happening beneath the covers (that Java so nicely provides). My peers who are doing C++ CORBA programming also think very highly of this book.
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Summary: Fabulous, just what I needed.
Review: One of the best I have seen
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Summary: A book for software developers using CORBA and C++...
Review: The "Advanced CORBA Programming with C++" is a good book. It covers in-depth the memory management, CORBA, as well the potential reasons for possible crashes. In the software development process, software architects, software designer and software developers should read this book. The only leak I found is the chapter about multithreading. It would be nice if in the next edition, the authors will cover in-depth also this subject. Thanks for this book. Romain Cloos; MSc Computer Science; Société Européenne des Satellites
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Summary: Well planned,focussed presentation of the topics-Very good
Review: The book by Michi Henning and Steve Vinosky has hit the market at the right time. There is no other book that describes the programming aspects of Corba in such an elegant manner. In brief, this book is Very good, A must have kind of book, Targeted at intermediate level CORBA programmer (though I feel a beginner can certainly read it as far as that person has some good background in C++) The topic "Advanced programming...." may be a bit misleading because, this book talks much about the basic stuff of CORBA rather than on the advanced, and not frequently used features like DII,DSI etc. I see this book as the one with a very down-to-earth approach that gives a lot of precious details about CORBA programming, rather than some thing that talks about very advanced stuff. IMHO, all that one needs is just a good grasp of C++ inorder to follow this book. The plus points of this book ar: a) The presentation is very clear and focussed b) Explains the nitty-gritty details of CORBA programming c) Describes the latest POA in good detail - infact this book deals only with POA based approach d) Not based on any single vendor's product There are no negative points as far as I could see. Topics like DII and DSI are not discussed. However, the authors clearly mentioned that they are not discussing DII etc in this book. On the whole, this book is very good and a must for any corba programmer. Well deserves all the five stars in the rating. Hope the authors include the other topics also (like DII,DSI etc) in the future editions
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Summary: Not easy to read...
Review: The book is composed from two books. It's a mix of CORBA features tutorial and the practical guide of how to use C++ with CORBA. So you may say you have two books in one what is really great! However, from certain reasons the book is not ease to read. Why? Because feature content and practical guide are not separated in any logical or clear way. They are mixed together. During reading you must actively skip some materials or go back depanding on your needs and skills. And this is not ease, presented material is not devided into levels of difficulty, but is presented subject by subject in a tutorial manner.
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