The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide

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Summary: Distributed Computing is like Childs Play
Review: Hi friends, I am an E-commerce consultant in silicon valley , I can say only one thing about this book - This is a terrific book.

Rating:
Summary: Distributed Computing is like Childs Play
Review: Hi friends, I am an E-commerce consultant in silicon valley , I can say only one thing about this book - This is a terrific book.

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Summary: lots of jargon, poor explanations
Review: I found this book to be full of unintelligible jargon. If you don't already know what it means, don't expect to find out here. I'm tired of books like this. Is it so very difficult to start from the beginning and write clearly? *** It's not just the failure of the authors in a case like this -- what about the editors? It's their job to make sure that an ordinary, intelligent reader can understand an "introductory" text like this. Did *they* even understand it? *** Maybe CORBA is superior to COM (or maybe not) - but I'll tell you one thing: David Chappell's "Understanding ActiveX and OLE" is a model of how to do this kind of book *right*.

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Summary: The bible of distributed objects
Review: Orfali, Harkey & Edwards are some of the most influential leaders in the distributed object field. This book is highly readable, and does something that few comprehensive books do: present the technologies in a sufficient manner for both managers and programmers.Their biases are very clear throughout the book: they're rooting for CORBA/OpenDoc.. Which reflects the age of the book. Unfortunately OpenDoc looks to be lost, while CORBA continues to still be used by industry. They treat OLE (ActiveX) like a second-class component model. (It's up to you to decide if it really is :) However, this book will get you "there" faster than any other, with good sprinkles of Oliver Sims' Business Object work, and Taligent's Commonpoint technology (the concept of which may become our future computer user-interface..) A Must read!