Product Description

PURE CORBA 3 is a premium, code-intensive reference for professional developers. It focuses on the core specification for CORBA 3 and contains:

• conceptual overview of CORBA 3.
• CORBA techniques programming reference that contains thousands of lines of commercial-quality code examples in both C++ and Java (the two most popular languages among CORBA developers).
• concise reference to the most important parts of the specification,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #697593 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 944 pages

From the Back Cover

PURE CORBA 3 is a premium, code-intensive reference for professional developers. It focuses on the core specification for CORBA 3 and contains:

• conceptual overview of CORBA 3.
• CORBA techniques programming reference that contains thousands of lines of commercial-quality code examples in both C++ and Java (the two most popular languages among CORBA developers).
• concise reference to the most important parts of the specification,

About the Author

Fintan Bolton is a software consultant, trainer, and technical writer for IONA Technologies, the world's leading developer of CORBA tools and software. Mr. Bolton has trained developers in the use of CORBA-based software such as Orbix, OrbixWeb, and OrbixOTM. He has also written technical documentation for many CORBA-based products, including Orbix 2000 and OrbixOTM. He can be reached at fbolton@pure-corba.com or at the accompanying Web site for this book, http://www.pure-corba.com.

Jeremy L. Rosenberger is a cofounder of and principal consultant with Ivy Design Group LLC (also known as ivyDesign), a consulting firm specializing in enterprise application architecture using Java, CORBA, EJB, and J2EE technologies. Mr. Rosenberger is also the author of Sams Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days (Sams Publishing, 1998). He can be reached at jeremy@ivydesign.com.

Mark Shacklette is a principal with Leverett & Pierce, Inc. in Chicago, where he specializes in the design and implementation of distributed object e-Commerce solutions for clients which include the American Bar Association, Siemens, A. C. Nielsen, The Options Clearing Corporation, The Chicago Board of Trade, Kemper Insurance, CNA Insurance, and The Northern Trust Bank. He holds degrees from Furman and Harvard Universities, and is on the faculty of computer science at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on operating systems, distributed object technology, and object-oriented architecture, design, and methodology.

Lichun Wang, Ph.D., is a research scientist in applied computing and bioinformatics at EBI (the European Bioinformatics Institute), currently working on using CORBA and XML for accessing and distributing biological data.

Customer Reviews

The best CORBA book for beginner/intermediate level
This is one of 6 CORBA books that I have (the other books are "Enterprise CORBA", "Java Programming with CORBA", "MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implementation", "Advanced CORBA Programming with C++" and "CORBA: Distributed Objects Using Orbix").

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).