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C++ Programming with CORBA(r)

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I do not recommend this book at all. It is poorly written with a lot of errors and with no continuity from topic to topic. The descriptions about methods in the book are not useful at all. The book is apparently a verbatim copy of JAVA programming with CORBA. The authors did not even have the respect to the reader to replace the word JAVA by C++, in a number of places the book talks about JAVA. I do not recommend this book at all. I hope the editors at Wiley pay more attention to the books they send to the printing press. The time I spend reading this book was a total waste not to mention the money I paid.

I'm a novice at CORBA and this book didn't prep me properly. Examples seemed to be Java examples ported over to C++. It was more of a reference than a learning tool. I've looked over the CORBA spec and a lot of the material from the spec is in the book almost verbatim.

I wanted to learn corba with this book but I realized that I have to rely on other sources to learn about it. This book contains excerpts from a book about corba with java and not c++, where the reference to java was not even removed and replaced by c++. Furthermore even as the unexperienced reader in corba I found many mistakes in this book regarding object and function definitions.

I was very disappointed with this book. Obviously the book is written in a rush. The whole content is not carefully written. Some parts are confusing. If you want to get some pieces of code, maybe you can take a look. However, if you want to learn CORBA in C++, this is definitely not a good book.

Rather disappointing and sloppy effort. There is no coherent thread that would explain things in a methodical fashion. Instead, things are used before they are explained, and quite a bit of knowledge is assumed. Definitely not for the beginner and, even then, hard to follow. Numerous mistakes in the code examples, including code that does not compile or leaks memory. A strange mixture of POA and BOA code, without clear delineation of which is which, and much of the C++ mapping is missing

I have done CORBA for several solid years and my view is that this is a book that gives a nice bit to brush up for the people with prior CORBA expertise. Brushing you up on concepts to polish your knowledge by using them and then refreshing your understanding of them. If you are an experienced CORBA developer on the Java platform you already know a lot of CORBA related stuff. This book jets you into the C++ world still used A LOT. If you bought Java Programming with CORBA Vogel wrote you will easily follow this one and enjoy it. There is some German engineering in it without doubt.

book is easy to read and excellent information