Corba Programming Unleashed [Paperback]

Suhail Ahmed (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unleashed | Publication Date: December 1998

This work aims to give the reader the technical background and the necessary details to become a better Object Oriented programmer. Basic Object Oriented Programming topics are covered so as to present an understanding of the core technology before moving on to ORB (Object Request Brokers) and CORBA. Topics covered include: Object technology; Object Oriented Programming; advantages of CORBA ORB (Object Request Brokers); IDL (Interface Definition Library); CORBA services; CORBA facilities; OMA (Object Management Architecture); dynamic invocation interface; the interface repository; CORBA domains; interoperability; CORBA programming; C++; JAVA; and Smalltalk.

Product Details

• Paperback: 578 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Sams Publishing (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672310260
• ISBN-13: 978-0672310263
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,959,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A great book for CORBA experts who enjoy mazes, August 20, 1999

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This review is from: Corba Programming Unleashed (Paperback)

As other reviewers have already noted, "CORBA Programming Unleashed" suffers from serious organizational problems. The book's total disregard for any sort of useful organization makes it approaching it a task for only the bravest of CORBA developers amongst us. And that's the other problem with it: you've got to be fairly CORBA-proficient already in order to make use of the material the author presents. If you don't know what an ORB is, stay away from this book. Mr. Ahmed doesn't even expand the acronym in a footnote in chapter 1, or anywhere else.

On the plus side, presentations of CORBA's threading models are digestible if somewhat concise, and with good diagrams. Discussions of CORBA's standard services are backed with somewhat motivating examples. And don't let other reviewers fool you: there are C++ examples in the book in addition to Java; it's just a bit Java-heavy.

However, those same code examples often rely on tools and packages that not everyone will have. For example, a Java/CORBA developer on a Unix platform will more than likely have a text editor, the Java SDK, and an ORB, but nothing else. Yet the very first example---a simple string-to-string registry for IOR binding---will have developers scurrying for a copy of JGL (just for a HashSet class) and iBus (for a message passing layer). The example could've been far more accessible and with much less cruft if it were done with nothing beyond the standard Java library and the ORB. Other examples seem to follow this sledgehammer-to-kill-a-fly pattern, and aren't independent from one another in many cases, making learning from them difficult.

Overall, you really need to be a CORBA expert to appreciate the material in this book. Even then, finding answers to particular problems in distributed object programming will prove challenging.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It is Good and It is Bad, December 22, 1999

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A Reader from Hong Kong - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corba Programming Unleashed (Paperback)

To be honest, the book is not an introduction to CORBA. The content is not well organized. The first topic of the book is already advance topics. Also there is not enough explaniation for some difficult points. However, the content will be suitable for reader who is already comforable with CORBA (Java and C). I like the section of 'E-commerce'. The code is good.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars As terrible as it gets, January 1, 2000

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Sean Kelly "Consultant" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corba Programming Unleashed (Paperback)

I unfortunately must echo the sentiments of other reviewers of this book: it's a tangled mess that leads nowhere. If you're already an expert at CORBA programming, there's an off-chance that you might find something useful in this book. If you're a novice, forget it.