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| View Larger Image | Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
by Martin Fowler
| | List Price: | $64.99 | | Price: | $51.99 | | You Save: | $13.00 (20%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 21097 | | Studio: | Addison-Wesley Professional | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 560 | | Publication Date: | November 15, 2002 | | Publisher: | Addison-Wesley Professional |
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Product Description
Developers of enterprise applications (e.g reservation systems, supply chain programs, financial systems, etc.) face a unique set of challenges, different than those faced by their desktop system and embedded system peers. For this reason, enterprise developers must uncover their own solutions. In this new book, noted software engineering expert Martin Fowler turns his attention to enterprise application development. He helps professionals understand the complex -- yet critical -- aspects of architecture. While architecture is important to all application development, it is particularly critical to the success of an enterprise project, where issues such as performance and concurrent multi-user access are paramount. The book presents patterns (proven solutions to recurring problems) in enterprise architecture, and the context provided by the author enables the reader to make the proper choices when faced with a difficult design decision. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 56 reviews)
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Basic Architecture 
This book is not for beginners. The patterns match many constructs I've built over the years. It is pretty comprehensive and a foundation for the newer patterns of SOA and WOA. A good addition to any architect's library.
October 30, 2008 | |
An Underrated Subject and Book 
Motivation
I didn't look at this book for a long time simply because of the word "enterprise." I felt the word was too overloaded to be useful. I've heard too many managers, recruiters, and other programmers use this word to mean too many different things. Fowler defines enterprise application as "the display, manipulation, and storage of large amounts of often complex data and the support or automation of business process with that data." By that definition every system I've ever worked on has been an enterprise application.
Cons
A dense, tough read. I almost wish I was at a whiteboard or kept a notepad while reading.
Pros
Fowler gives a fantastic presentation of how to design software using databases, distributed components, etc. This is given through good narratives and anecdotes of Fowler's own experiences, and also through the patterns distilled from these.
The best thing I can say about this book is I would put it fourth in the list of books-I'd-like-anybody-I'm-working-with-to-have-read, right after to Design Patterns, Refactoring, and Extreme Programming Explained.
Summary
As with most patterns books, not everything in here is an amazing revelation, but the common approach, terminology, and ways of categorizing problems and solutions make it very valuable.
Programmers who utilize design patterns and refactoring, and who work on software systems involving distributed components and/or databases should take a look at this book.
October 22, 2008 | |
Misses out on the important patterns 
This book is a complete beginner's handbook for enterprise patterns.
1) The "Mapping to Relational Database Patterns" section discusses patterns that are completely intuitive. I recall logically coming to this conclusions when I started programming in Visual Basic in 99. Nothing new in this section.
2) The "Concurrency" section is criminal in nature and assumes that the application runs on high-cost server. Process-per-session? Thread-per-request? Come on!! Has the author missed out on the Reactor, Proactor and Active Object patterns (he does reference ACE but only as a reference). These patterns have been recognized as not scalable in the late 90s.
3)The distribution patterns are clearly incomplete and desire a lot of details.
If you're just starting out,as a System Architect :-), you'll find this useful. Otherwise, use MSDN or ACE for enterprise patterns.
August 07, 2007 | |
Must have reference for all developers
Even if you don't do "Enterprise Application" development, this book is a must have in your library. If you have been developing for more than a couple of years and you haven't seen 1/2 of the patterns in this book, then you are probably doing something wrong and this book could greatly help you.
Even if you do know 1/2 or more of the patterns in this book it is a great reference to the details of these patterns. Unless you are a Sophomore Software Engineering Student I'd recommend this book over the GoF book. Gof is a must have too, but if you can only have one. Get this one!
July 16, 2007 | |
Must read
This is a must read book if you are a developer, architect or in anyway related to technology.
April 04, 2007 | |
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