The best CORBA book for beginner/intermediate level, 26 Nov 2003

This is by far the best book that I have read for beginner or intermediate level. What I particularly like about the book is that it discusses C++ and Java programming side by side. This is very important because it helps you to understand which issues are general to CORBA and which are specific to one programming language. As far I as I know, this is the ONLY book that takes this dual-language approach to discussing CORBA. All the other books I have seen are either C++ specific or Java specific.

There are so many different parts to CORBA (like lots of CORBA Services) that it is impossible for one book to discuss them all in detail (unless the book would be 2000+ pages long). So it is not possible for this book to cover EVERYTHING in detail, but the book focusses on PRINCIPLES. For example, the Portable Interceptors and CORBA Component Model chapters explain the high-level concepts very well, and leave me feeling comfortable that I will now be able to understand the low-level details if I read the official specifications.

I would recommend the "Advanced CORBA Programming with C++" book (by Henning and Vinoski) as a follow-up book. But as far as introductory/intermediate CORBA books are concerned, "Pure CORBA" is the best available.

By the way, the book's title is "Pure CORBA" rather than "Pure CORBA 3" (which is how Amazon lists it).

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