Enterprise CORBA

by Perry Russell, Dirk Slama, Jason Garbis

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130839639
• ISBN13: 9780130839633
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Very good!

I highly recommend this book for anyone plannning to build a large-scale Corba System. It covers many important topics which I'm sure any developer will find useful. The chapters on Managing Server Resources, Load Balancing and Fault Tolerence are very good. This book also gives you very good guidelines on good IDL design which can have a huge affect on performance.

CORBA Architecture and Design

The best book on CORBA I've read, though not for beginners. The author focused on design guidelines and taxonomies of BOA/POA Orbs. Among other things, you'll find a good Load Balancing/Fault Tolerance discussion (form a design perspective) I found very useful.

Hard-won advice for building real-world CORBA systems.

First off - let me come clean : I'm biased!!!The authors are all Senior Consultants in our Professional Services Group at IONA Technologies.I'll limit my review to saying this: if you are seeking real, practical advice on how to actually build a CORBA system - then I believe this book is a must-have. To my mind, the authors have zoned in on the key topics we see again and again when building systems - object location and naming, scaling, performance, database integration, etc. You get the necessary fragments of code, IDL, design and architecture to ensure you can really understand the issues and apply it to your own situation.Because it's based on experience on the field, the book has a "been there, done that" feel to it - but it manages to avoid being overly didactic or preachy. The authors are very clear to identify open issues where they exist, and manage to group their topics to that beginners and experts alike will gain from their experience.All in all, the CORBA development community sorely needed a book like this, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone building or thinking about building a distributed system. This book will save you time.Now - roll on the second revision!! :-)Sean O Sullivan, Professional Services, IONA Technologies

Best book on Distributed Object Architecture around

The thing I like most about this book, is that it is written from the architecture perspective. Many of the principles in this book apply not only to CORBA, but any distributed object system - even those built with RMI or DCOM.I totally recommend this book to anyone building a distributed object system.

Tremendously useful for CORBA architects and developers.

This book does a *great* job of explaining the design issues that must be considered when building large-scale CORBA systems.The parts on IDL design, fault tolerance and load balancing, and database integration were particularly helpful to me.The knowledge in this book will be extremely useful for anyone designing or implementing a CORBA system, regardless of the ORB product being used.