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Essential Guide to Object Monitors

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The Essential Guide to Object Monitors provides a concise and well written guide to object technology. This guide is essential for anyone-especially people who are not software developers-who needs a thorough understanding of distributed object technology. The book begins with a excellent explanation of middleware technology, CORBA, DCOM, and application servers. The next section focuses on reviews of specific products and the pros and cons of using these products for specific development projects with regards to interoperability, scalability, high availability, robustness, security, and manageability. Overall, I highly recommend this book.

As advertised, I thought this book provided an excellant introduction to middleware and the OTM market as well as a good overview of the key players. The book is perfect for those readers looking for an easy to understand guide to the products. I should note that anyone looking for code examples or deep technical details would be disappointed to find this isn't the right book for them (I wasn't so it was great for me).

The next big wave in software technology is the use of distributed objects for the application architectures.Distributed objects are becoming the brick and the mortar of software development. Object monitors will eventually replace classical TP monitors. If you need a high level overview of the object monitors and the current products in the market this is the best book one can afford.

While I've been doing object-oriented programming for several years, I was somewhat new to the object middleware space. This book provided an in-depth examination of individual products, and somehow made a complicated subject easy to comprehend. Overall, this is a great book! Paul Broadwater

I needed a definitive book on the subject of Distributed Object Transaction processing...Eureka! Just what I needed. It tells you most everything you might want to know on the subject in an entertaining and delightful way.

This is the best object monitor book I have ever read. The writing is precise, logically presented, and a pleasure to read. Looking forward to seeing more books by this author.

This is the sort of book that gives software a bad name. It's superficial, doesn't support its claims with any substance, and resorts to evaluating products like IBM's CB without ever using it. They claim they've written substantial pieces of code with each product. I'd love to see it, and then I might be able to understand where they're coming from.