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1) Paperback Book Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, 2nd Edition by John Wiley & Sons. This book is more suitable for beginners that want an insight to the jargon-laden world of Java middleware. CORBA is a powerful and complex method for distributed computing. This book does not go in depth into how to make use CORBA in practice. It gives a fairly shallow overview that frustratingly does not have much substance. It reminded me of an academic lecture I attended where I was positive that the lecturer did not have practical experience in the subject - and gave a theoretical discussion on the subject. This is fine as an introduction but frustrating if one wants to get over the theoretical summary of the concepts and work on what (and if) it works; and under what circumstances! BUT this book is very useful to beginners that would like the 50K feet view first and then go elsewhere to drill for more information. Another point to keep in mind is that this book was originally published in 1998 - some of the book´s information is presently irrelevant. I am not sure if there was a reprint since 1998 but the information included is dated. In conclusion, buy this book if you are a beginner and would like a reference guide. Hope this is helpful!!¤ 2) Paperback Book Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, 2nd Edition by John Wiley & Sons. An exceptionally well-written book by best-selling authors. The book
is a great way to learn about Client/Server programming in general, and
CORBA in particular. This book is massive, totaling over 1000 pages
(a huge increase over the first edition). It includes a CDROM with all of the
code examples as well Borland´s Vivibroker and others. Note the book is not just about teaching CORBA programming using
the Java language. It also provides large amounts of material on Java Beans and Enterprise Java Beans. This is a teaching book not a reference book.
While it does provide Java coding examples, developers will not use it
to write their code (at least I don´t). Book Sections:
1- CORBA Meets Java (3 chapters)
2- Core CORBA/Java (3 chapters)
3- The Dynamic CORBA (3 chapters)
4- CORBA and Its Competitors (7 chapters)
5- The Existential CORBA (6 chapters)
6- JDBC 2-Tier Versus 3-Tier (4 chapters)
7- From JavaBeans to EnterpriseJavaBeans (8 chapters)
8- Grand Finale: Club Med with CORBA/JavaBeans (4 chapters) The CORBA coverage is extensive: BOA, POA, Interface Repository, Java-to-IDL and
IDL-to-Java mappings, and DII among others. However, no coverage of the CORBA Services,
besides the Naming Service. Be prepared for their style of writing. As with their other best-selling books,
they have Zog the Martian (see the cover) and Soapboxes, which give their insightful opinions on
issues and problems with the subject. Personally, I enjoyed it as it makes the
book more interesting. Some Negatives. This book has become somewhat outdated, written in 1998,
with an intro by Marc Andreesen and a CDROM containing JDK 1.1! There are better
books on Enterprise Java Beans. A new edition of this book could be thinner
by reducing the EJB material. Its missing coverage of the new CORBA Component Model
(of course, CCM was not out in 1998). In summary, I highly recommend this book for readers wanting to learn Client/Server programming and CORBA (using Java). I bought many copies of this book over the years
for training people at my company.¤ 3) Paperback Book Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, 2nd Edition by John Wiley & Sons. When you look at the table of contents, you can discover the book is not just about how Java and Corba work together. Or let me put it this way, that´s not the only theme you can get from this insightful book. My take-away after reading all the parts where it discusses the history and difference between Corba and other distributed object technology is a satisfatorily complete overview of all these middleware/messaging technology, which are all important contributors to today´s red hot J2EE-compliant application server market (BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere), or what EJB likes to be known as: ORB with TP monitor capability. Granted, the book is a little outdated (written in early 1998 apparently), and this is about the only drawback of the book. Hope the authors will come up with a new edition with all the latest development in this topic soon. And mind you again, I skipped all the implementation parts of the book (which is the only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 stars - because I don´t wanna be potentially overrating a part that I didn´t read). I focussed on the high level discussion on CORBA concepts (which explains it better than other books I´ve read on this subject), how Sun started to endorse it with Java, as well as comparing technologies (comparable not in the technolgy purist´s sense, but in the sense that they are ´enablers´ for IT folks who wanna implement remote object invocation over enterprise LAN or over internet) such as traditional sockets, CGI, RMI, Servlet, and the major CORBA rival - DCOM. If you´ve used these various technologies before separately like I did, and sometimes felt a bit overwhelmed by all the different standard and practices, this book provides an EXCELLENT melting point where suddenly why there´re all such various levels of technology, and the relative pros and cons of each of them all makes sense.¤ 4) Paperback Book Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, 2nd Edition by John Wiley & Sons. This is a fantastic resource; it has saved us in many situations. We are in development with Java and CORBA access via BroadVision and this has helped us tremendously.¤ 5) Paperback Book Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, 2nd Edition by John Wiley & Sons. This is definitely the best stuff around for all CORBA lovers.The book is detailed and goes step by step.A reader who is already well aquainted with OO techniques,RMI,Java and C++ will find a few chapters a bit boring.This is one piece of work which gives self-starters a chance to start programming using the CORBA architecture.The comparisions between different clients & servers breaks quite a few notions about C++ clients and Java Servers.The undermined Java Application receives a boost with such a comparision. Further on, The different approaches to using CORBA and explaining them in depth is one of the achievements of this book.A good round up of various ORBs, Transcation Monitors is also well appreciated.¤ 6) Paperback Book Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, 2nd Edition by John Wiley & Sons. CORBA and JavaBeans are merging in cyberspace. Here´s your completely updated guide to navigating this previously uncharted territory. Whether you´re a seasoned Java programmer, a distributed objects expert, or looking to be a little of both, this Second Edition of the enormously popular Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA gives you the programming know-how you need to combine these two technologies into workable client/server solutions for the Object Web. Full of working code, tutorials, and design trade-offs, this one-of-a-kind book: Includes over 250 new pages on JavaBeans, CORBA Beans, and Enterprise JavaBeans. Shows you how to invoke CORBA objects from JavaBeans tools such as Visual Cafe, JBuilder, and Visual Age for Java Covers everything from simple ORB programming to exciting new areas such as CORBA 3. 0´s POA, Object Pass-by-Value, IDL-to-Java, and RMI-to-IIOP Uses tutorials and client/server benchmarks to compare CORBA and its competitors including Java/RMI, Java/DCOM, Sockets, HTTP/CGI, and Servlets Covers in detail Netscape´s ORB: VisiBroker for Java 3. X; it shows you how to use Caffeine to write CORBA/Java applications without IDL Provides a Debit-Credit benchmark for JDBC databases to compare 2-tier vs. 3-tier client/server solutions Provides a JavaBeans version of Club Meda Web-based, 3-tier client/server application that uses CORBA, Java, and JDBC Shows how to use CORBA´s dynamic facilities such as callbacks, dynamic invocations, object introspection, and the interface repository Comes with a CD-ROM containing over 16 Java-based client/server applications (and other goodies). They have written numerous bestselling books including Instant CORBA,The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, Second Edition, and The Distributed Objects Survival Guide. The two Survival Guides both won the prestigious Software Development/Jolt Award for best computer books. Visit our website at www wiley. com/compbooks/¤ 7) Paperback Book Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, 2nd Edition by John Wiley & Sons. The standard by which all other CORBA books are judged, Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA is the book to read if you´re thinking about doing anything with this language- bridging technology. Working toward the Object Web, a computing phenomenon in which the Internet is full of code modules that users can assemble in many different ways to suit their needs, Orfali and Harkey explain the Common Object Request Brokerage Architecture (CORBA), which goes a long way toward realizing that goal. This book is the single best CORBA resource available anywhere. Appropriately enough, the book opens with a comparison of the client/server architectures of Java and CORBA. It then goes on to cover dynamic invocations of CORBA objects. There´s a discussion of the trade-offs involved in choosing among sockets, HTTP/CGI, remote method invocation (RMI), and CORBA/IIOP, complete with a table that compares the features of all the competitors. The authors then explore the relative advantages and disadvantages of two- and three-tier database query systems under JDBC. The book concludes with a fully implemented client/server transaction-handling system. The authors´ prose and code is lucid and complete, and all of the numerous code samples appear on the companion CD-ROM.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 23-Nov-2008, 047124578X9780471245780, 8X0-560-170-470-101-881-8 
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