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1) Paperback Book Integrating Corba and Com Applications by . The book is ok, but it doesn´t leave you with enough information to sit down and write code with a COM/CORBA bridge. The other poster that said this book is biased to IONA´s COMet product is incorrect though - I don´t think COMet is even mentioned in the text, which is a shame, since COMet is the most popular COM/CORBA bridge around.¤ 2) Paperback Book Integrating Corba and Com Applications by . The title of this book should be; "How to use IONA´s COMet." This book is very vendor specific. From experience, IONA´s COM-CORBA bridge is very slow due to all of it´s dynamic implementation. This book tells very little about how the different IDL´s map to each other.¤ 3) Paperback Book Integrating Corba and Com Applications by . I bought the book and read it twice and found it was not what I expected. I easily get lost in the chapters and example. But it did give some useful and helpful data¤ 4) Paperback Book Integrating Corba and Com Applications by . These guys cover the subject reasonably well, although a lot of it is rehashing the OMG document. I enjoyed the vitriolic digs at COM, the authors´ views match my own on the superiority of CORBA. In fact, a good summary of the book is "the OMG standard minus the even-handed neutrality"!¤ 5) Paperback Book Integrating Corba and Com Applications by . This is a disappointing book. It represents a very bigoted view of the world of distributed objects. The authors are CORBA zealots, and spend more time sniping at COM than conveying insight into the problems faced by programmers in the real world who have to make real systems talk to each other. Only near the end of the book does it even consider the possibility that you might want to call COM server objects from a CORBA client. But, OMG´s CORBA interworking specs are very well written and handle the material much better. Download the CORBA/IIOP 2.2 Specification at the OMG web site.¤ 6) Paperback Book Integrating Corba and Com Applications by . A marriage made in heaven . . . Learn to write COM programs to work with CORBA. As it stands, there are two core approaches to distributed objects: OMG´s server-side standard, CORBA, and Microsoft´s client-side stronghold, COM. The trick for programmers looking to simplify and increase flexibility in their systems is to get these two approaches to work together. Expert help is now available in this practical guide to writing programs that take advantage of the strengths of both industry standards. The authors describe exactly how to write hybrid programs, build real-world systems using COM with CORBA, partition applications, and write COM clients that use CORBA objects and services. The book also discusses key traps and pitfalls to avoid and advises readers on the best solutions to common programming problems encountered when integrating these approaches. Companion Web site includes all source code and demonstrations of applications discussed in the book.¤ 7) Paperback Book Integrating Corba and Com Applications by . The two most popular standards today for reusing objects in distributed environments are Object Management Group´s (OMG) CORBA and Microsoft´s COM. Instead of an either/or choice, however, many programming shops face the prospect of integrating both technologies. This book is a valuable roadmap for getting CORBA and COM to coexist peacefully using Visual Basic. This guide first looks at the new tools that allow CORBA and COM to work together. (Both authors contributed to the OMG COM/CORBA Internetworking Standard, so they are highly familiar with the tools.) The book offers good coverage of CORBA basics, including basic philosophy and the nuts and bolts of its Interface Definition Language (IDL) and data types. The authors detail how to map data types back and forth between CORBA and COM. Short, effective programming samples illustrate the basics of calling CORBA methods from within Visual Basic. Advanced chapters look at such topics as exception handling and using COM/CORBA on the Internet. Throughout Integrating CORBA and COM Applications, the authors stress a role for COM on the client and CORBA on the server. The authors largely ignore Microsoft´s recent attempts to bring COM to the enterprise with DCOM and the emerging COM+ standard. But for integrating older-style COM components with legacy CORBA services, this guide can serve as an absolutely indispensable resource. --Richard Dragan¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 8-Jan-2009, , EQB-8 
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