Distributed

Java Distributed Objects

Format: Paperback
Author: Bill McCarty
ReleaseDate: 22 December, 1998
Publisher: Sams
Rating:

Good reference book, tough read.
Unfortunately this reads like an encyclopedia and I never finished it. I tried to literally read every book I buy from front to back. I have, however, used the book for reference a few times. If anything, the book is quite comprehensive.

This book helped me a lot!
I actually got it 3 days ago as I take a graduate course in Java for Distributed Programming and felt overwhelmed in this course. I am still reading Java Distributed Objects as I write this note.

I haven't left the book since I got it and it already cleared a lot of subjects that I am wrestling with for several months.

I love this book and appreciate immensely the authors' great contribution to me.

I never wrote an evaluation on a book, as one never has the time to use this form of saying thank you. Thanking that one made such effort to contribute to you, usually for a price of dinner or less. I decided to make an exception this time.

So why I am I throwing an exception now?

Before I bought the book I looked at it briefly at the bookstore and thought that it will be helpful. Than I got on line and read a very negative review by one reader. I almost didn't buy the book as it was so negative and that would have been a huge loss for me as the book really pooled up from a very frustrating sense of being completely overwhelmed by the subject. I am not sure what motivated the other reader to be so negative. I usually feel a lot of respect to an author who goes through the immense birthing pains to produce a book that intends to contribute to others. Yeah he gets paid some but I can hardly envision anybody retiring from one of these tech books.

So for what ever it worth. I thank these authors for producing this book. It helps me a lot and I appreciate it!

Ted I Weitz MD Cambridge MA (No, I do not work for SAMS do not know the authors or even knows where they are. ).

Don't buy this book unless you want to waste your money!
This book failed my expectation by two reasons. I bought this book because of other customers' review. First, the book does not explain anything in detail such that you understand it. You just know only the existence of the technologies described in the book. But if you want to use them for your projects, you still need to find deeper information from somewhere else, or figure them out by yourself. I really hate this especially when the author said something like "you now have a solid understanding of. . . . " after he explained about something in just only 1-2 pages. Second, the author makes half of this book like a misc java book. Instead of concentrating on the topic (distributed technologies), you will find so many chapters describing general concepts of java in this book, which are not related to what you really want to get from this book. Anyway, the author from place to place slips in his comments to convince you that what you are reading really relates to distributed technology somehow. I don't want to say much more than this. Seeing is believing!.