Corba Design Patterns (Paperback)

~ Thomas J. Mowbray (Author), Raphael C. Malveau (Author)

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CORBA Design Patterns provides essential information on building CORBA-based applications using design patterns and shows how to execute these applications using the "interface design language" (IDL) created by OMG. After introducing CORBA and design pattern concepts, the book presents a catalog of design pattern templates for building enterprise-wide applications and systems.

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Programmers and systems developers have really taken to the CORBA standard for distributed objects because it is powerful enough for developing applications enterprise-wide. And design patterns are one of the hottest new trends in the programming world. This book provides essential information on building CORBA-based applications using design patterns, and shows how to execute these applications using the "interface design language" (IDL) created by OMG. After introducing CORBA and design pattern concepts, the book presents a catalog of design pattern templates for building enterprise-wide applications and systems, creating Internet applications, and integrating legacy applications. Includes CD-ROM with ... * IDL for all available CORBA services and facilities * All source code examples contained in the book * Sample implementations

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Product Details

• Paperback: 333 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471158828
• ISBN-13: 978-0471158820
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,566,197 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars self-aggrandizing and a waste, August 6, 1999

By A Customer

Everyone else on this page has done a great job of pointing out the shortcomings of this tome. But another thing that ought to be mentioned is the astonishingly self-aggrandizing writing style. Mowbray seems to denigrate the Gang of Four (whose shoes he is not fit to shine) by saying that their book addresses only a micro-architectural level, while his is the "first" to deal with higher levels. He says this over and over, in a not-so-subtle way of favorably comparing himself to them. Well, big whoop! His "higher level" patterns are obscure and not particularly useful. They are based more on the technical specificities of CORBA itself - which change every time the CORBA standard does. And then he even applies patterns to how organizations should be run!? This is just a bit much. Design patterns are no substitute for management theory. Anyway, my favorite part is the bibliography, in which every single book is described as "essential" or "unmissable" or something like that - especially the other books by Mowbray. I forget the exact word he used, as I threw out this piece of trash months ago.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacking in substance, May 18, 2000

By A Customer

This book contains titles and summaries for several useful CORBA design patterns. However, on a closer read you will find that it does not contain nearly the depth and breadth of the Gang of Four Design Patterns book. I would love to see someone actually provide detail for the Participants, Consequences, and Implementation sections that were so well documented in the GOF book, but conspicuously absent in this one. What an obvious rush-to-market to jump on the Design Pattern frenzy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not too technical, September 6, 2000

By	"d15315" (Greensboro, NC United States) - See all my reviews

Yes, having read the GOF book, this one does not stand up to it's level of detail and many of the patterns are not that great. However, I am surprised by how harsh some of the reviews are. The review of system scale and the relation to level of pattern usage was worthwhile and some patterns, while people will say "duh, how obvious", are decent intros for those who do not have in depth knowledge. I would recommend this book to newbies in OO and CORBA and not to a seasoned OO developer. That's the differentiation that needs to be made. Read Enterprise CORBA by Slama et al if you're looking for more detail on CORBA in general. If you want a high level review of patterns and how they apply to CORBA level OO, this book is fine.