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Summary: A code-intensive reference for professional developers
Review: Fintan Bolton's Pure CORBA 3 is a premium, code-intensive reference for professional developers. It focuses on the core specification for CORBA 3 and contains: conceptual overview of CORBA 3, CORBA techniques programming reference that contains thousands of lines of commercial-quality code examples in both C++ and Java (the two most popular languages among CORBA developers), and concise reference to the most important parts of the specification. User Level: Professional, 944pp.
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Summary: Superb!!!!
Review: I am a Java, C and C++ programmer that had been thinking about learning CORBA for a while. I just finished reading "Pure Corba". I was thrilled, exactly what I needed. I even took it as a treat for Xmas :-) Superb Book!!! I only hope the authors now write a (better? :-)) book about the relationship/overlapping functionality of CCM and EJB's. I ussually hate books that handle more than one subject, but this one even amazed me. It has a right to the matter no fluff, no courtesy jokes approach. They explain to you the generality/commonality of a concept and than go ahead about implementing good examples and explaining to you why things are different in Java and C++. I had purchased/checked out other books and with the exception of "Advanced CORBA programming with C++" (which, as the title says, is about C++ only) the other books are just "paper on sale". In order to become a CORBA expert, all you need is these two books and the info at the omg site . Every single cent I spent was good ROI.
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Summary: Not my cup of tea.
Review: I am not sure why this book gets such good reviews. I have read most of it (from front to back) and found myself skipping alot towards the end. Like you'd imagine, by doing both C++ and Java examples it ends up covering neither well. If Bolton absolutely had to have examples in both languages, I think he would have done better by splitting it up into two books and then going into the level of detail that Henning and Vinoski do in their seminal book. It's a bit ridiculous to buy a book this size and still feel like you are not getting enough information. The main selling point that it has is it includes information on later CORBA features (like Components and Objects by Value) that aren't in other books. If you REALLY want to understand what is going on, go with the Advanced Corba Programming with C++, though it is starting to show its age a bit.
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Summary: Not my cup of tea.
Review: I am not sure why this book gets such good reviews. I have read most of it (from front to back) and found myself skipping alot towards the end. Like you'd imagine, by doing both C++ and Java examples it ends up covering neither well. If Bolton absolutely had to have examples in both languages, I think he would have done better by splitting it up into two books and then going into the level of detail that Henning and Vinoski do in their seminal book. It's a bit ridiculous to buy a book this size and still feel like you are not getting enough information. The main selling point that it has is it includes information on later CORBA features (like Components and Objects by Value) that aren't in other books. If you REALLY want to understand what is going on, go with the Advanced Corba Programming with C++, though it is starting to show its age a bit.
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Summary: The Best CORBA book ever
Review: I dabble in CORBA programming, and do just enough to get by. I've skimmed Orfali/Harkey's books and found them wanting. CORBA for Dummies I thought lived up to its name. Advanced CORBA programming with C++ I use mostly as a reference, since I'm largely in the Java world. This is bar none THE CORBA book you want to have in your library as both a comprehensive reference and the primer you need to get the most out of CORBA, and the only one that's held my interest long enough to go from cover to cover.
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Summary: The Best CORBA book ever
Review: I dabble in CORBA programming, and do just enough to get by. I've skimmed Orfali/Harkey's books and found them wanting. CORBA for Dummies I thought lived up to its name. Advanced CORBA programming with C++ I use mostly as a reference, since I'm largely in the Java world. This is bar none THE CORBA book you want to have in your library as both a comprehensive reference and the primer you need to get the most out of CORBA, and the only one that's held my interest long enough to go from cover to cover.
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Summary: Outstanding introduction and reference
Review: I have been using CORBA for the past year, and had really been struggling until I found this book. I used Henning and Vinoski's book, which I am sure has all the information, but to my mind arranged in a deeply confusing and inefficient manner - for example, the naming service does not appear until page 771, the examples until that point relying on stringified references which no-one would use in practice. It has been a huge relief to find Mr Bolton's book. After a brief once-over lightly in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 contains an excellent introduction to the basic concepts, by starting with a basic application, and adding features such as exception handling and use of the naming service step by step. Chapters 3 through 8 cover the basic concepts in detail, including excellent coverage of memory management, the POA (Vinoski & Henning's chapter on this had me baffled for several readings of it) and the naming server. The rest of the book contains treatment of a number of more advanced topics. An excellent book.
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Summary: The best CORBA book !
Review: I wish all technical books would look like that. * The book is well organized.
* Simple, clear explainations.
* Full of good code examples (both Java and C++).
* BIG index. The book contains not only technical data, but
also practices and patterns for everyday use of CORBA.
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Summary: Kudos to Mr Boltan for a brilliant Corba book!
Review: Over the past couple of years I've read a number of Corba books and found all of them lacking in either content or structure and sometimes both! This book by Fintan Boltan is absolutely superb and by far the best. I've yet to find any major weaknesses with it...
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: What a great book!! This is THE book to read if you want to begin writing applications in CORBA! It covers both C++ and Java programming with CORBA and each of these languages are given equal priority. I have this book as well as the books: Java programming with Corba 3rd Edition and the H&V Advanced Corba programming with C++. Corba is a bit confusing at first and in my opinion, this book gives you the best introduction to Corba which will allow you later to read any of the other Corba books easily (The others are a bit confusing at first). Chapter 7 which explains POA policies in detail is very delicious and highly important. POA policies in my opinion are the most confusing subject to a Corba beginner and this book explains them clearly. I am a Java programmer so I haven't done a lot of reading in the H&V book, but for anyone who is planning to program in Java with Corba, I highly suggest that you buy this book along with Java programming with Corba 3rd Edition by Brose, Vogel & Duddy which covers some very interesting Corba Services that are not in this book like the Notification service, Trading Service and the PSS. Also, you might be interested in the Enterprise Corba book by Slama, Garbis and Russell if you are planning on building a large scale Corba System. In conculsion this book is very clear with lots of good examples! Get it along with possibly another book, but don't forget to download the OMG specs which will come in handy as a reference.
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