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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... integration of data , it pro- vides communication and user interface services directly . That is , this model allows for integration of multiple representations but fixes the models for user interfaces and communication . In one ...
... Integration in this area is still incomplete . Data conversions are passive , and the ordering of operations remains relatively rigid . The integration systems can exploit only relatively coarse system information , such as file and ...
... integration focused on support - supervisory systems , which provided basic services such as data management and information flow control to individual independent applications , much as software development environ- ments did . The ...