Enterprise Application Architecture Patterns

Author: Martin Fowler
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of various new technologies. Multi-layered object-oriented platforms (such as Java, .NET) have become increasingly common. These new tools and technologies are capable of building more powerful enterprise applications, but they are not easy to implement. Due to developers' lack of a full understanding of the experiences and lessons learned by seasoned object-oriented program developers in terms of architecture, common errors often exist in enterprise applications. The author of this book is an authority in object-oriented software development today, and with the help of a group of expert collaborators, he has transformed over 40 frequently occurring solutions into patterns, ultimately writing an indispensable handbook for solutions that can be applied to any enterprise application platform. This book received the Productivity Award and Reader's Choice Award for the 2003 edition of the U.S. Software Development Magazine. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is a simple introduction to how to develop enterprise applications. The second part is the main body of the book, a detailed reference manual on patterns, where each pattern provides usage methods, implementation information, and is accompanied by detailed Java or C# code examples. Additionally, the book uses numerous UML diagrams throughout to further clarify the relevant concepts. This book is written for software architects, designers, and coders who are committed to designing and building enterprise applications, as well as serving as a reference textbook for relevant courses in computer science and software engineering programs at universities and colleges.