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by Robert Orfali (Author), Dan Harkey (Author) "The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (COBRA) is the most important (and ambitious) middleware project ever undertaken by our industry ..." (more)
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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 Med–a 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/


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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 Med—a 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/

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wide ranging -good overview but hard to find gritty detail, 3 Jan 2001
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While I understand the other reviewers comments, this book fulfilled *my* needs very well, and I recommend it to others in the same situation. Coming from a knowledge of single-CPU Java only, it gives an overview not only of CORBA and Java but of the competing technologies. If you only *think* CORBA/Java is the combination for you, this will answer your questions. If you know the answer is Java/CORBA and you want the nuts-and-bolts of how to do it, this book is too long and contains too much extraneous material.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good book for the big picture, but be warned, 14 Nov 2000
I have not read the whole book yet, but I have just wasted 2 days trying to run the first and fundamental example in the book. The book is obviously good for those who want to get an overwiew over the subject, which was why I bought it. But there is no support, patches, errata or anything to help you out in a problem like I have had. The code in the book has probably been updated since the first edition, but the software following is still the same old. So it took me two days to find out that the supplied vbjorb.jar file is too old. So be warned, if you want to compile and run the examples, you need to get a newer version. Fortunately I had an Oracle installation that also has this file, and I was able to replace it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars misleading title,poor structure,too repetitive & theoretical, 5 May 2000
This great book has a misleading title - don't buy it if you just want to write Java/Corba C/S application, it'll confuse you ! Like most readers I will agree that the authors have done a *great* job in comparing and contrasting in huge depth all the modern distributed computing related platforms and technologies. I wont disagree or repeat other people's opinions about the merits of this book, so I' ll jump to what I did not like (and gave it 3 stars):

- The organisation of the book is not very consistent. At times the book goes into great detail explaining a particular aspect (which is good) and then you find the same material mixed in other chapters explained again. Clearly when this is many pages long is wasting not only paper but your time reading through as well, it could simply be referenced, and the book could be at least 200 pages less. I found the book very interesting but also hard to read and follow.

- The book is a perhaps too theoretical at times. Perhaps this is of interest of ORB developers and not ORB users (application programmers). For instance the book is diving into ORB & POA policies details, explaining exactly what is happening behind the scenes. This might be of interest to very experienced programmers or ORB implementers, but not people who just want some subtle methods of writing C/S programs with CORBA/Java.

- I am sure the in-depth comparison of the technologies a) Has made Micro$oft sad of DCOM (cruel people) and Sun shine drinking coffee. b) Will be THE reference book for managers who make serious decisions about multi-million project investments & perhaps Academics who all wish to compare, compare and compare....

...but is this your interest ? Or do you just simply want to understand CORBA working 2gether with Java in the context of 3-tier Client server apps and start programming ?

If the title of the book was something like "ADVANCED Client/Server TECHNIQUES & ISSUES of Java & CORBA, with an in depth comparison of other existing & emerging modern distributed architectures.", I would have rate it differently.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A mile wide and an inch deep
This book covers too much ground. Great if you want to compare CORBA to RMI to DCOM to sockets, and want an intro to EJB and Java Beans. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Long winded and poorly structured.
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