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Summary: Not easy to read but challenging...
Review: The book is composed from two books. It's a mix of CORBA reference and tutorial. You have two books in one what is really great! However, from certain reasons the book is not easy to read. Reference and tutorial are not separated in any helpful way. They are mixed together. After the first part, during the remaining parts of the book, authors focus our attention on developing distributed Climate Control System. While reading you must actively skip some materials or go back depanding on your needs and skills. And this may be not easy, the book is not devided into levels of difficulty ( or everything is equally difficult? :), but is presented subject by subject in a reference manner.Shortly, if you need some challenge, this is good place to look for because the book is definitely worth reading!
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Summary: Not easy to read but challenging...
Review: The book is composed from two books. It's a mix of CORBA reference and tutorial. You have two books in one what is really great! However, from certain reasons the book is not easy to read. Reference and tutorial are not separated in any helpful way. They are mixed together. After the first part, during the remaining parts of the book, authors focus our attention on developing distributed Climate Control System. While reading you must actively skip some materials or go back depanding on your needs and skills. And this may be not easy, the book is not devided into levels of difficulty ( or everything is equally difficult? :), but is presented subject by subject in a reference manner. Shortly, if you need some challenge, this is good place to look for because the book is definitely worth reading!
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Summary: A fantastic book for COBRA programmers.
Review: The most complete COBRA book in the market so far
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Summary: Good (but early prints have major flaws)
Review: This book has a clear presentation of many of the concepts in CORBA programming. Some of the clarity comes from (rightfully) limiting their discussion to the POA (Portable Object Adapter) approach to server programming. However, early printings (I think the first and second printings) had a major flaw: the examples used a very unsafe C++ programming style -- using side-effects in `assert's. One of the authors has confirmed that this has been fixed in the third printing. So -- caveat emptor, try to get the third printing of this book.
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Summary: Good, but some major flaws ...
Review: This book has a clear presentation of many of the concepts in CORBA programming. Some of the clarity comes from limiting their discussion to the POA (Portable Object Adapter) approach to server programming. Not that I'm complaining. However, IMHO they have done a great disservice to readers by using a very unsafe C++ programming style. It is one thing to say that they, in the interest of pedagogy, don't show all the error-handling code. It is something completely different, and very unfortunate, that they go off to the other end and use a totally unsafe and buggy programming style -- using side-effects in `assert's. This will lead to surprising results, and hard to find bugs, when code is compiled in "Release" rather than "Debug" mode.
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Summary: At last! A book for practitioners
Review: This book is for the practical application of Corba and C++ to everyday programming. As a distributed object designer and implementor I can unreservedly recommend this book to anyone who needs to actually see the 'man behind the curtain'. The text of this book is crearly written and is amply supported by well documented code examples. The authors provide alternative implementations and then proceed to assess the various implementations. Scalability and performance issues are discussed.
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Summary: Outstanding - A CORBA Bible
Review: This book is one of the best that I have ever read on CORBA. The authors have wasted no time in explaining OO concepts/C++ and have jumped straight on to the job. This is something that indicates erudition. This book is certainly intended for an expert C++ programmer. I believe this has been done mainly to focus on CORBA rather than C++. All programming examples are well thought out. This is "The Book on CORBA" as Doug Schmidt says in the foreword. Looking forward to the next edition that would cover DSI, DII etc (preferably from the same authors). The word "advanced" in the title is misleading.
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Summary: Outstanding - A CORBA Bible
Review: This book is one of the best that I have ever read on CORBA. The authors have wasted no time in explaining OO concepts/C++ and have jumped straight on to the job. This is something that indicates erudition. This book is certainly intended for an expert C++ programmer. I believe this has been done mainly to focus on CORBA rather than C++. All programming examples are well thought out. This is "The Book on CORBA" as Doug Schmidt says in the foreword. Looking forward to the next edition that would cover DSI, DII etc (preferably from the same authors). The word "advanced" in the title is misleading.
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Summary: Far too complicated
Review: This book proves that C++ and CORBA are far too complicated. I'm sticking to Java and EJB!
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Summary: Great CORBA Book
Review: This has to be one of the best CORBA books that I have read. It has helped me debug code and fix some really knotty problems. I found the exposition clear and easy to follow, and the index a useful tool. I don't think the authors intended it to be read cover-to-cover.
If I am working on a CORBA project I alway like to have this book to hand.
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