Pure Corba [Paperback]

Fintan Bolton (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672318121 | ISBN-13: 978-0672318122 | Publication Date: July 26, 2001 | Edition: 1

PURE CORBA 3 is a premium, code-intensive reference for professional developers. It focuses on the core specification for CORBA 3 and contains:

• conceptual overview of CORBA 3.
• CORBA techniques programming reference that contains thousands of lines of commercial-quality code examples in both C++ and Java (the two most popular languages among CORBA developers).
• concise reference to the most important parts of the specification,

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PURE CORBA 3 is a premium, code-intensive reference for professional developers. It focuses on the core specification for CORBA 3 and contains:

* conceptual overview of CORBA 3.
* CORBA techniques programming reference that contains thousands of lines of commercial-quality code examples in both C++ and Java (the two most popular languages among CORBA developers).
* concise reference to the most important parts of the specification,

About the Author

Fintan Bolton is a software consultant, trainer, and technical writer for IONA Technologies, the world's leading developer of CORBA tools and software. Mr. Bolton has trained developers in the use of CORBA-based software such as Orbix, OrbixWeb, and OrbixOTM. He has also written technical documentation for many CORBA-based products, including Orbix 2000 and OrbixOTM. He can be reached at [e-mail] or at the accompanying Web site for this book, http://www.pure-corba.com.

Jeremy L. Rosenberger is a cofounder of and principal consultant with Ivy Design Group LLC (also known as ivyDesign), a consulting firm specializing in enterprise application architecture using Java, CORBA, EJB, and J2EE technologies. Mr. Rosenberger is also the author of Sams Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days (Sams Publishing, 1998). He can be reached at [e-mail].

Mark Shacklette is a principal with Leverett & Pierce, Inc. in Chicago, where he specializes in the design and implementation of distributed object e-Commerce solutions for clients which include the American Bar Association, Siemens, A. C. Nielsen, The Options Clearing Corporation, The Chicago Board of Trade, Kemper Insurance, CNA Insurance, and The Northern Trust Bank. He holds degrees from Furman and Harvard Universities, and is on the faculty of computer science at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on operating systems, distributed object technology, and object-oriented architecture, design, and methodology.

Lichun Wang, Ph.D., is a research scientist in applied computing and bioinformatics at EBI (the European Bioinformatics Institute), currently working on using CORBA and XML for accessing and distributing biological data.

Product Details

• Paperback: 944 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (July 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672318121
• ISBN-13: 978-0672318122
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #944,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!, April 16, 2002

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Ahmed Matar (Bahrain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pure Corba (Paperback)

What a great book!! This is THE book to read if you want to begin writing applications in CORBA! It covers both C++ and Java programming with CORBA and each of these languages are given equal priority. I have this book as well as the books: Java programming with Corba 3rd Edition and the H&V Advanced Corba programming with C++. Corba is a bit confusing at first and in my opinion, this book gives you the best introduction to Corba which will allow you later to read any of the other Corba books easily (The others are a bit confusing at first). Chapter 7 which explains POA policies in detail is very delicious and highly important. POA policies in my opinion are the most confusing subject to a Corba beginner and this book explains them clearly. I am a Java programmer so I haven't done a lot of reading in the H&V book, but for anyone who is planning to program in Java with Corba, I highly suggest that you buy this book along with Java programming with Corba 3rd Edition by Brose, Vogel & Duddy which covers some very interesting Corba Services that are not in this book like the Notification service, Trading Service and the PSS. Also, you might be interested in the Enterprise Corba book by Slama, Garbis and Russell if you are planning on building a large scale Corba System. In conculsion this book is very clear with lots of good examples! Get it along with possibly another book, but don't forget to download the OMG specs which will come in handy as a reference.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding introduction and reference, January 9, 2002

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Andrew Simmons - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pure Corba (Paperback)

I have been using CORBA for the past year, and had really been struggling until I found this book. I used Henning and Vinoski's book, which I am sure has all the information, but to my mind arranged in a deeply confusing and inefficient manner - for example, the naming service does not appear until page 771, the examples until that point relying on stringified references which no-one would use in practice. It has been a huge relief to find Mr Bolton's book. After a brief once-over lightly in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 contains an excellent introduction to the basic concepts, by starting with a basic application, and adding features such as exception handling and use of the naming service step by step. Chapters 3 through 8 cover the basic concepts in detail, including excellent coverage of memory management, the POA (Vinoski & Henning's chapter on this had me baffled for several readings of it) and the naming server. The rest of the book contains treatment of a number of more advanced topics. An excellent book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!!!!, January 3, 2002

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arthur - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pure Corba (Paperback)

I am a Java, C and C++ programmer that had been thinking about learning CORBA for a while. I just finished reading "Pure Corba". I was thrilled, exactly what I needed. I even took it as a treat for Xmas :-) Superb Book!!! I only hope the authors now write a (better? :-)) book about the relationship/overlapping functionality of CCM and EJB's.

I ussually hate books that handle more than one subject, but this one even amazed me. It has a right to the matter no fluff, no courtesy jokes approach. They explain to you the generality/commonality of a concept and than go ahead about implementing good examples and explaining to you why things are different in Java and C++.

I had purchased/checked out other books and with the exception of "Advanced CORBA programming with C++" (which, as the title says, is about C++ only) the other books are just "paper on sale".

In order to become a CORBA expert, all you need is these two books and the info at the omg site .

Every single cent I spent was good ROI.