I personally have a very high opinion of the technical leveland presentation of this book. The author gives enough substanceto all RMI components as well as enough how-to information fora typical TMI deployment. What I apperciated most however isthat it's replete with small pieces of wisdom on distributedsystems design (e.g., scalability) that were eye-opening. It also illustrates the distributed way of thinking through teaching...
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The book is well organized from the basic technology to hgh level, deep technology. If someone wants to know RMI itself, thisbook will be useless. But if someone really wants to know what distributed system is and how the distributed system is implemented using RMI, this book is very helpful.
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The majority of recent computer books are cut and paste jobs written byoverly perky hackers with limited communication skills; most appear tohave been hastily assembled over a few weekends from screen and codedumps, with a smattering of text added to provide some semblance ofcontinuity. This book bucks that trend. Ostensibly it is a book aboutRMI. However, it goes much further and provides an excellentintroduction to building...
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Many books on specific technologies fall into one of the following categories: a reference book (merely reformatting the javadocs), a simplistic tutorial (is there already a "RMI for Dummies"?), or a guide strictly for those already knowledgable on the subject. Java RMI is not a mere substitute for the javadoc, instead it manages to teach distributed programming (RMI is merely the platform used) and share the author's experience...
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