By William Grosso
First Edition
October 2001
Pages: 572
ISBN 10: 1-56592-452-5 |
ISBN 13: 9781565924529
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
With Java RMI, you'll learn tips and tricks for making your RMI code excel. The book provides strategies for working with serialization, threading, the RMI registry, sockets and socket factories, activation, dynamic class downloading, HTTP tunneling, distributed garbage collection, JNDI, and CORBA. In short, a treasure trove of valuable RMI knowledge packed into one book.
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Featured customer reviews
the other reviewers missed something, May 13 2007
A lot of people bag on this book and that is unfortunate.
This book is not a reference. The pitt book is a reference.
This book is an introduction to distributed computing with RMI as the vehicle. This book has helped many people like myself who were simply not ready for distributed computing when they read it. The coverage of IO and threads is necessary.
I can honestly say that after reading this book, I was both prepared for distributed computing and proficient as an RMI developer. But, this is not a commercial for me. This is a positive review for a very good (and unfairly maligned) book
Java RMI Review, November 15 2002
The book explains concepts well and has good information. But definitely not a ultimate guide to RMI.
Java RMI Review, June 20 2002
overall the book is o.k., however the example in this book is so poor, not enough explaination on the example.
Media reviews
"Solid practical insight into the nitty-gritty details of RMI...Bottom line is that Grosso simply covers the topics and does so with solid conceptual and code coherence--even by O'Reilly standards (over 40 animals grace my shelves). His prose and explanatory patterns make it clear that he has actually gotten into the real-world of RMI, and doesn't hesitate to highlight both good and bad parts. You cannot be dozing off when you read this (at least not if you expect to understand it)--this is written by someone with solid analytic thinking skills and it shows."
--slashdot.org, March 4, 2002
"...contains a wealth of experience in designing and implementing Java's Remote Method Invocation. If you're a novice reader, you will quickly be brought up to speed on why RMI is such a powerful yet easy to use tool for distributed systems, while experts will gain valuable experience for constructing their own enterprise and distributed systems...In short, a treasure trove of valuable RMI knowledge packed into one book."
--Java Boutique
