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Distributed COM Application Development Using Visual C++ 6.0
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Author: Jim Maloney
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130848743
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (08 November, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 70,730
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Helps if you look at the content
As a note to A reader from LLNL, CA., yes this book covers DCOM (which is out of date),BUT it is primarily about building DISTRIBUTED applications using COM with Visual C++ 6. I'm just about to start a five year iterative project for a client in Visual C++ 6 (believe me many, many clients who regard safety as paramount will wait quite a while yet before jumping to .Net), and as someone for whom Visual C++ is a second (or third) lanaguage, it's a great book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Remarkably *DEAD* technology
Micro$oft is famous for its ability to push out new development technologies. The reason behind this planned obsolesence is obvious, every time they come out with something new people will have to open their wallets to "keep up."DCOM is just another disposable technology. As such, it was a complete failure; one that the marketing folks at M$ have tried to bury as quickly as possible under an avalanche of .NET hype. DCOM was hard to port because, like COM, it is based on a binary standard (i.e. a standard that changes when you leave x86 and go to 64-bit RISC). Not only that, but DCOM doesn't support distributed transactions. Worst of all, DCOM is a very, very complicated technology to use. Three strikes... YOU'RE OUT! The half-wit MBAs at Micro$oft realized their mistake and have abandoned DCOM, leaving it forever in the backwaters where the only record of its sorry existence are stupid books like this. I have no idea why someone would want to buy this book. Folks, this is a dead technology. It is no more. It is an ex-techology. If you buy this book, you are lying to yourself. This book will sit an gather dust, unless you can find more productive uses for it...like burning it to stay warm.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Exceptionally Understanding/Informational/Instructional
I have read multiple books relating to COM/DCOM topics and I find that most of them tend to be very hard to follow/comprehend. Jim tends to re-emphasize his points so that you don't have to turn back the page to continue following along. In my mind I am asking a question and low and behold the answer is on the next line. Jims video store n-tier example is excellent. Many books throw in many examples that tend to be non-related; therefore, confusing the reader. By using an expanded example throughout the book makes reading and comprehension simple. I don't write many reviews (as a matter of fact none), but I felt that while I was online looking for other books written by Jim Maloney I would give him some aknowlegement for a book excellently written. Congrats...
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