Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging DisciplineGood software developers often adopt one or several architectural patterns as strategies for system organization. But, although they use these patterns purposefully, they often use them informally and nearly unconsciously. This book organizes this substantial emerging "folklore" of system design -- with its rich language of system description -- and closes the gap between the useful abstractions (constructs and patterns) of system design and the current models, notations and tools. It identifies useful patterns clearly, gives examples, compares them, and evaluates their utility in various settings -- allowing readers to develop a repertoire of useful techniques that goes beyond the single-minded current fads. KEY TOPICS: Examines the ways in which architectural issues can impact software design; shows how to design new systems in principled ways using well-understood architectural paradigms; emphasizes informal descriptions, touching lightly on formal notations and specifications, and the tools that support them; explains how to understand and evaluate the design of existing software systems from an architectural perspective; and presents concrete examples of actual system architectures that can serve as models for new designs. MARKET: For professional software developers looking for new ideas about system organization. |
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... allow objects to have multiple interfaces [ KG89 , Har87b ] . Object - oriented systems have many nice properties ... allows designers to decompose problems into collections of interacting agents . But object - oriented systems ...
Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline Mary Shaw, David Garlan. allow us to reason about the behavior of that system . A formal description of an architec- tural style allows us to characterize common architectural abstractions and ...
... allow us to combine independent architectural elements into larger systems . This has three important aspects : First , an architecture - description lan- guage must allow a designer to divide a complex system hierarchically into ...