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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Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline Mary Shaw, David Garlan. 1. An application - specific component . This consists of code that is specific to one par- ticular application program and is not intended to be reused in other applications ...
... Application interface abstraction level is in many ways the key structural dimension . The design space identifies six general classes of application interface , which are most easily dis- tinguished by their level of abstraction in ...
... application determines its basic interactive behavior . Medium portability of applications across user - interface styles is required . In such things as menu appearance , cT follows the conventions of the host platform , and the ...