Programming With Visibroker : A Developer's Guide to Visibroker for Java [Paperback]

Vijaykumar Natarajan (Author), Stefan Reich (Author), Bhaskar Vasudevan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0471376825 | ISBN-13: 978-0471376828

The only book you need for programming VisiBroker using Java

The most widely used commercial implementation of the CORBA standard, Inprise's VisiBroker, is used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. Written by a team of Inprise insiders, this updated and expanded Second Edition of the #1 guide to programming VisiBroker helps Java developers quickly master the skills they need to develop more powerful and sophisticated distributed, object-oriented, client/server systems, from scratch or with existing components using VisiBroker 4. New topics covered in this edition include migrating VisiBroker 3 to version 4; the Portable Object Adaptor; implementing the Objects by Value feature; the VisiBroker Interface Repository; Dynamic Programming APIs for use with scripting; and more.

CD-ROM contains VisiBroker for Java 4, VisiBroker Naming and Event Services, and complete code for all examples in the book.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Coauthored by the lead architect for the VisiBroker Java ORB, this is the authoritative guide to programming with VisiBroker for Java. Designed to help Java developers quickly master the skills they need to develop more powerful and sophisticated distributed, object-oriented, client/server systems from scratch or by combining existing components, it covers all the crucial bases in the lifecycle of a VisiBroker implementation, including:
*Analysis and design in distributed object systems
*Basic and advanced VisiBroker for Java implementations
*Performance considerations and fine-tuning
*The approved OMG IDL to Java mapping
*VisiBroker interfaces to legacy relational databases using JDBC
The CD-ROM contains:
VisiBroker for Java 3.0
VisiBroker naming and event services
Complete code for all the examples from the book
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From the Back Cover

How to build advanced distributed object systems using the latest version of VisiBroker for Java.

In this new edition of the acclaimed book on the VisiBroker ORB, technical insiders from the VisiBroker development team at Inprise bring you up to speed on the latest version of this most popular implementation of the CORBA standard-VisiBroker 4 for Java. They significantly update and expand the book, providing complete guidance for creating faster and better distributed object-oriented systems, either from scratch or by combining existing components. You'll learn programming techniques in CORBA, then explore in depth basic and advanced VisiBroker for Java implementations. Best of all, you'll be able to quickly master all of the new features introduced in VisiBroker 4, including:
* Support for the current CORBA specification
* The Portable Object Adapter (POA) for programming servers
* Implementation of the Valuetypes feature of the latest CORBA release
* Dynamic Programming APIs you can use with scripting
* VisiBroker Interface Repository
* VisiBroker Console, the graphical management tool for VisiBroker servers and services
* VisiBroker's advanced thread and connection management framework
* VisiBroker gatekeeper, including enhanced support for firewall navigation
* Interceptors and Object Wrappers
The companion Web site contains:
* The complete code for all the examples in the book
* Links to useful resources on CORBA and VisiBroker
* Late-breaking information about VisiBroker and CORBA
* Errata for the book
Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

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Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471376825
• ISBN-13: 978-0471376828
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,313,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but you need JBuilder3, December 24, 1999

By 

Ing. Jaime Calahorrano Gallardo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming with VisiBroker (Paperback)

This book give a good explanation about the most famous ORB in the world, Visibroker. The short problem is that the writers don't explain how we have to integrate with a useful IDE. If you plain to buy this book, get Jbuilder first and enjoy it with Visibroker.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Only BOA coverage though., February 17, 2000

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Sanu Padhi - See all my reviews

This review is from: Programming with VisiBroker (Paperback)

The presentation of the book is great. I did not find the general CORBA section all that useful, but the later sections provided some valuable insights.

My main criticism is that the book is getting slightly dated. There is no coverage of the POA. The current edition is totally BOA based. A couple of chapters by the authors on using Visibroker to handle transactions would be really welcome as well. I am looking forward to the next edition.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Best CORBA Book so far ...., May 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Programming With Visibroker : A Developer's Guide to Visibroker for Java (Paperback)

I have 3 CORBA books and this one is definitely the best. It teaches you CORBA from a practical point of view through the use of VisiBroker. The guy with 1 star recommendation nit-picking about typos and Visibroker version totally missed the point. As far as OMG CORBA specification is concerned, VisiBroker version does not make a difference. For me, I did not really want to learn VisiBroker as a product. I wanted to learn CORBA through VisiBroker. If you want to learn about CORBA with Java from a beginner or intermediate level, this book is the best I have read.