Customer Reviews

Large Scale Component Based Development

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My primary goal to read the book was to find out more about components, especially how to design EJB components for the enterprise. The author explains very well what a component is, the importance of component specifications, and how to apply component techniques. The book is not specific to any component infrastructure. It covers COM as well as EJBs.

I liked the detailed cbd modeling example at the end of the book as well as the author's list of useful resources on enterprise-scale application development.

The book is well written and well organized but does not go into much detail. The book can be read quickly and gives a good high level view of component-based design. It does not offer rigorous definitions of the elements of CBD nor practical guidelines for factoring a design into components and services. It is certainly not "definitive". The book by Herzum and Sims is a better source for architects and developers.

There are a lot of books discussing component-based development, but this is the first book I've read that details a complete methodology for making CBD work. I believe that professionals experts in distributed system development will recognize many of the practices, design principles, approaches, and simple common sense that they have applied in the past

I did not enjoy this book. It is a very high-level view on component-based development that lacks any detail. Often statements are made without further explanation and terms are used without definition. The book does not go into detail how you would group functionality to components nor what makes good interfaces. References to some technology in the middle of an abstract discussion are somehwat irritating.
The book is not bad. However, it gives you what you probably already knew and leaves you with the feeling "and now?".

The book is well written and well organized but does not go into much detail. The book can be read quickly and gives a good high level view of component-based design. It does not offer rigorous definitions of the elements of CBD nor practical guidelines for factoring a design into components and services. It is certainly not "definitive". The book by Herzum and Sims is a better source for architects and developers.

This book is somewhat brief and high level, but it does a good job describing how components should interact within the enterprise. It is also gives a good description on how to define component interfaces.