Instant CORBA

by Jeri Edwards, Dan Harkey, Robert Orfali

Distributed CORBA Objects have found their killer app. It's the Object Web-or the marriage of distributed objects and the Internet. The major computing companies-including Sun, JavaSoft, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Oracle, BEA, and HP-have chosen CORBA IIOP as their common way to connect distributed objects across the Internet and intranets. Consequently, CORBA is about to become as ubiquitous as TCP/IP. Instant CORBA is your quick guide to understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471183334
• ISBN13: 9780471183334
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

good start!

This book is fun to read and inspiring, because the authors seam to love what they write about. Sometimes, however, the style is a little close to "commercial advertising". The concepts and visions sound evident, the technology is explained at the right level of abstraction. If you have time, read this book as an introduction to Corba before buying a real programmer's guide to corba.

good high level introduction to CORBA

This book is a good, enthusiastic, high level, non-programmer's introduction to CORBA and the "object web". I would recommend it to anyone wanting a quick introduction CORBA. The diagrams are excellent. I did, however, find the use of the term "intergalactic" thoroughly annoying after a while and am not convinced that the Martian theme theme adds anything positive to the book. Please remove them from future books!!

A good, high level introduction to CORBA concepts.

I dissagree with julio@greenwich.com. This book is an easy to read, lighthearted text that explains CORBA concepts without getting bogged down by technical semantics. It's an excellent precursor to further technical reading.

An excellent review on CORBA

This book gives a good orientation in "CORBA world": concepts, CORBA services, CORBA-Java relationship. It also shows major players and products. A good book !

Highly recommended for a good overall understanding of CORBA

This book covers CORBA both at a high level as well as in the details. Not only does it give a good view of CORBA but represents the thinking of the industry overall as to the proper architecture for component-based applications in the Internet age. It will not teach you how to program using CORBA but will prepare a designer or programmer for CORBA-based systems. I recommended this book to our training department as a text for a network computing architecture course.