Customer Reviews
A great Java/Corba book, but not for novices. - By: unknown, 04 Jun 2007 
This book is a bit heavy to read. I suggest you get a background introduction online first. Otherwise, it may leave you bewildered & confused with alot of technical material without some clear grounding in objects & references. There isn't enough balance in this book between theory & practical application. But, gives you a full in depth understanding of what Corba is & it's future. Make sure you understand fully how Java works before embarking on reading this book. However, it does cover some fundamental theories of Java & relates them to how they are extended in Corba.
Lack of good examples - By: , 17 Mar 2003 
I've the 2nd edition & although the book is nice there are a big lack of good examples & there are mistake in the code too. The table of contents is the same so i may guess they just update the material to follow the new spec' of CORBA, which may mean that the lack of good examples will go on.
Excellent Tutorial and Reference Book - By: , 15 Aug 2002 
An excellent book if you are new to Corba, or if you are looking to hone advanced techniques.
Covers, amongst other subjects, programming Portable Interceptors, & Portable Object Adapters, alll with working Java examples.
The authors speak from experience. Specificallly G Brose is the principle author & maintainer of the JacORB project. An excellent, & well specified open source Java ORB.
This book is a must for those interested in distributed computing & wondering what Corba has to offer.
Simply fantastic - By: , 15 Oct 2001 A book of this calibre need no long rambling review. If you are looking to deploy complex corba solutions & use java somewhere in the mix then this book is for you. This is the bible as far as java + corba go!
