Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

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This Paperback Book item from Sams was reviewed on 3-Nov-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) by Sams. I like many other reviewers had trouble getting the examples to work. I´m just glad I found the book for free online and didn´t waste any money on it. I´m going to try Pure Corba next, wish me luck.¤

2) Paperback Book Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) by Sams. This guy Rosenberger is a bloody genius ... after 14 days I felt like a 14 year pro! Thanks a lot!¤

3) Paperback Book Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) by Sams. I learned almost everything I could think to know about CORBA in a mere 14 days.¤

4) Paperback Book Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) by Sams. A very frustrating book, because I actually want to like it, but can´t. In many ways, it´s actually quite a good introductory text, the explanations are mostly clear, and it´s fairly well paced.

BUT
The editorial staff as SAMS need a good spanking!
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The book is strewn with errors and typos, and I´m not just talking about spelling errors here (although there are many)

A few examples:

1.; The class diagrams in chapter 5 are simply empty boxes with lines connecting them, somewhere along the way, the text in the boxes got lost. It´s impossible to follow the example without the diagrams.

2. Each chapter has Quiz questions, and answers are found in an appendix. Problem is, some of the answers are to different questions! It appears that at some stage the questions got changed, and the answers weren´t updated.

3. In the discussion of strings, the sample code that purports to show how to declare a fixed-length string, actually declares an array of variable length strings.

In spite of my annoyance at this kind of error, I´ve given the book 2 stars, because there´s a lot to like about other aspects of the book. If they come out with a second edition which fixes the errors, it would be well worth buying.¤

5) Paperback Book Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) by Sams. I had high hopes for this book. It´s very readable and pitches at a good level, somewhere between impatient pro and interested amateur. It´s taken a lot more than 14 days though, with chapter 6 requiring you to type in and debug c. 1200 lines of C++ code.

Also, although the text claims to be compatible with Visibroker, it isn´t directly compatible with version 4.0, which uses POA instead of BOA. You can get backward compatibility with a combination of IDL compiler switches and options passed to the ORB on start up, but expect significant digging in the Visibroker manuals to get to this point.

To use one of the other ORBs listed in the book, which the author achnowledges will need hacks to the code, would be difficult, unless you were already CORBA literate. But then, why are you here?

There are also significant annoying typos. The book needs a new edition (IMHO), with POA, and distribution with a CD containing the examples and an open source ORB like TAO.

I learned a lot from this book, but with a significant amount of frustration at trying to get the examples to work.¤

6) Paperback Book Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) by Sams. CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is the standard for object-oriented distribution system development. Addressing CORBA for the beginning user, this book will walk an architect, programmer, or developer through each step of designing and building large-scale, complex systems. The CD-ROM contains trial versions of CORBA products such as IONA´s Orbix, Visgenic´s VisiBroker, and Sun´s Java IDL product.¤

7) Paperback Book Teach Yourself Corba in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) by Sams. Want to know the difference between an IDL and an ORB? Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days provides the fundamentals of CORBA, the industry standard for interoperability for distributed computing. The guide begins with a short history of distributed, client-server, and n-tiered models of computing and informs you where CORBA fits in. It then follows the usual format of the Teach Yourself series, organizing the material into a two-week tutorial with questions (and answers) at the end of each section.

Early chapters define the basics of CORBA, including the object request broker (ORB), interface definition language (IDL), and all the basic types used in this glue language, which allows objects to talk to one another in distributed environments. (A very quick tour of object design and unified modeling language is also thrown in here, but it´s much too quick to do anyone much good.)

With the basics in tow, the author introduces sample code (written alternately in Java and C++) for a banking application and turns to more advanced topics in CORBA development. The banking application gets simple "push" features through CORBA callback functions. Another chapter discusses some pitfalls of CORBA enterprise development, with topics such as "IDL creep," the complexities of multithreading, and the lack of value semantics in CORBA IDL. This section also demonstrates how CORBA 2.0 can invoke objects dynamically through its dynamic invocation interface (DII) facility and shows how this version of CORBA has built-in support for business objects in CORBAservices and CORBAfacilities.

The last sections are perhaps the most useful for programmers, featuring a simple working example of a Java application that runs CORBA inside an Internet browser. The author does a good job of comparing CORBA and Java remote method invocation (RMI) and highlighting the strengths of each. Final appendices include a survey of today´s CORBA tools (which are difficult to find, since these products are definitely higher-end) and a brief mention of the principal rival to CORBA--Microsoft´s emerging COM+ standard. This fine introduction to CORBA development is ideal for developers or managers who want to get a perspective on the possibilities--and complexities--of using CORBA for the enterprise.¤

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