Provides information on developing enterprise applications reference to the patterns usage and implementation and code examples in Java or C This book illustrated with UML diagrams to further explain the concepts covers the division of an enterprise application into layers approaches to organizing business logic and more The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies Multi tiered object oriented platforms such as Java and NET have become commonplace These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications but they are not easily implemented Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers The author noted object oriented designer Martin Fowler noticed that despite changes in technology from Smalltalk to CORBA to Java to NET the same basic design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems With the help of an expert group of contributors Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns The result is an indispensable handbook of solutions that are applicable to any enterprise application platform This book is actually two books in one The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book s lessons The next section the bulk of the book is a detailed reference to the patterns themselves Each pattern provides usage and implementation information as well as detailed code examples in Java or C The entire book is also richly illustrated with UML diagrams to further explain the concepts Armed with this book you will have the knowledge necessary to make impor
