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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... data structures right , the rest of the program is much simpler . In the late 1960s algorithms and data structures began to be abstracted from individual programs , and their essential properties were described and analyzed . The 1970s ...
... data structures , with the separation of a module's specification from its implementation , and with the introduction of abstract data types . In the late 1960s , good programmers shared an intuition about software develop- ment : If ...
... data structures and algorithms that operate on those data struc- tures . Extensions allow them to describe computational structures such as concurrency . They are not particularly good at describing reliability , absolute time , and ...