Customer Reviews

Pure Corba

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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.

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.

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.

I wish all technical books would look like that.

* The book is well organized.
* Simple, clear explainations.
* Full of good code examples (both Java and C++).
* BIG index.

The book contains not only technical data, but
also practices and patterns for everyday use of CORBA.

It's a pretty good book, though, not really comparable to "Advanced CORBA programming with C++". If you really want a good CORBA reference book get Henning and Vinoski's book. The best thing about this book is that it also includes Java which makes it a pretty good buy. Not all of the code is available electronically on the book's website which can make it cumbersome if you want to actually try to run some of examples....

As a Sr. Java developer, I was looking for a good CORBA book with a Java slant. Until I found this one, I wasn't having much luck. Look no further. There are lots and lots of examples in Java (and C++). I've only read 100 pages, but so far, I really like this book.

Money well spent.

I recently purchased this book to augment my other book, "Advanced CORBA". While both books are good, Pure CORBA leans towards the practical, and Advanced CORBA leans to the referencie. When you also consider that this book costs a good deal less than the Advanced CORBA book, this is probably the first book of the two you should buy.

The content of this book is very good with plenty of explanations and examples in Java and C++. My biggest complaint is that the book looks like the pages were printed using a cheap laser printer and then glued together in a very poor binding. Pages in my copy are already starting to come loose after only a month of use.

This book is great for beginners in CORBA, however you have to be a little more than advanced in JAVA or C++ to understand the underlying material. It provides good examples and I figured out how to better manage my IDL files/functions.

I am not sure why this book gets such good reviews. I have read most of it (from front to back) and found myself skipping alot towards the end. Like you'd imagine, by doing both C++ and Java examples it ends up covering neither well. If Bolton absolutely had to have examples in both languages, I think he would have done better by splitting it up into two books and then going into the level of detail that Henning and Vinoski do in their seminal book. It's a bit ridiculous to buy a book this size and still feel like you are not getting enough information.

The main selling point that it has is it includes information on later CORBA features (like Components and Objects by Value) that aren't in other books. If you REALLY want to understand what is going on, go with the Advanced Corba Programming with C++, though it is starting to show its age a bit.