Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture 1st Edition

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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.

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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 important architectural decisions about building an enterprise application and the proven patterns for use when building them.

The topics covered include:

Dividing an enterprise application into layers

The major approaches to organizing business logic

An in-depth treatment of mapping between objects and relational databases

Using Model-View-Controller to organize a Web presentation

Handling concurrency for data that spans multiple transactions

Designing distributed object interfaces

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Martin Fowler is an independent consultant who has applied objects to pressing business problems for more than a decade. He has consulted on systems in fields such as health care, financial trading, and corporate finance. His clients include Chrysler, Citibank, UK National Health Service, Andersen Consulting, and Netscape Communications. In addition, Fowler is a regular speaker on objects, the Unified Modeling Language, and patterns.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (November 5, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321127420
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321127426
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.44 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.7 x 1.6 x 9.4 inches

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For all of my career I've been interested in the design and architecture of software systems, particularly those loosely classed as Enterprise Applications. I firmly believe that poor software design leads to software that is difficult to change in response to growing needs, and encourages buggy software that saps the productivity of computer users everywhere.

I'm always trying to find out what designs are effective, what approaches lead people into trouble, how we can organize our work to do better designs, and how to communicate what I've learned to more people. My books and website are all ways in which I can share what I learn and I'm glad I've found a way to make a living doing this.

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Joseph

Stream-of-consciousness presentation promoting worst-practices.

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2018

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I wish I had read all of the negative reviews rather than the review selected at the time as the top-negative review. This book is an exercise in frustration. One would have to see how far one would get before stopping. I made it almost to the end of the third chapter just before the web-presentation chapter. After reading so many disconnected sentences, paragraphs, and topics, I started to wonder what the author was even trying to do or say. Finally, I came to the conclusion that the author was trying to say everything but wound up saying nothing or worst makes contradictory statements but does not state clearly what he is comparing and contrasting. For example, in one section, the author recommends ORM as the must-have (You should seriously consider buying an O/R mapping tool..., page 37) and then bashes a serous shortcoming of ORM without stating that this is a shortcoming of ORM. (It's usually better to use one query that brings back unnecessary rows than to issue 50 individual queries, page 40) Unfortunately, one would have to deduce this connection based on years of experience having focused on the differences between ORM and using database queries to know that one-to-many relationships in ORM has serious shortcomings--each of the many relationships results in a query. While comparing technologies and making sure to consider alternatives is a great goal and many strive to achieve this balance, the author isn't achieving anything and certainly is not presenting best practices. What I finally concluded is that the author is engaging in a stream-of-consciousness presentation where the author's opinions on everything is deeply intertwined within the text, contradictory information is presented without fully explaining a technology, and worst-practices are presented. For those interested, you can read the book to find out for yourself and wonder if the author really is advocating some worst practice.

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I didn’t find these patterns particularly relevant to building modern systems, which are mainly driven by front-end JS frameworks, web APIs, and ORMs. These technologies developed after the book was published. There is coverage of Unit of Work and MVC - patterns I have come across in daily work - but most of the others didn’t seem directly applicable. I would recommend a different book for modern software architecture.

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Darryl Porter

The patterns in this book are as relevant today as ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016

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The patterns in this book are as relevant today as they were when Fowler wrote them out 14 years ago. You'll find these patterns used in most of the popular (regardless of language) web development frameworks use today. I've owned this book for 7 years and I reference it often as I plan and build enterprise architecture. I came here specifically to write a review after pulling the book down to plan out a new application. To use a cliche, it has stood the test of time.

I read in a review that this book is biased toward java: I must disagree--while most of the example are in java (chosen because its a language most developer, at least, know how to read, if not program in), the concepts are universal and can be applied to almost any object oriented language. I've never programmed an enterprise application in Java--yet, it is my go to book when designing architecture for my language of choice.

So if you are thinking are buying this and think it is dated: Its not.
Or think its for java devs: its not.

There's my two cents

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jasond

Required reading for enterprise software architects

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2019

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This book is required reading for any solution architects or developers working on enterprise software. While there are many new patterns that aren’t covered in the book, the contents of this book should be second nature to anyone aspiring to design enterprise class solutions.

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Iain C. T. Duncan

Want to really understand the design of enterprise application frameworks? This is the one!

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017

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This is a book that has stood the test of time incredibly well. If you want to understand the patterns and architectural principals *behind* the frameworks people use to make complex business or web software, this is fantastic.

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Steve Grubbs

An Underrated Subject and Book

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2008

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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.

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alexandr

Missed pages in book

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019

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There are no pages from 328 to 345.

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Ysovuka

Great for enterprise developers, useless for anyone else.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017

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Bought this book as my current job required it, read it, learned a lot. The company decided to more to a completely different 'programming language' which makes this book worthless and the new language is design based not code based.

If your using a code based language you will learn a lot, pair this book with the Kent Beck Test Driven Development and the blue Domain Driven Development books. Extend the longevity of your code by years.

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toni

it's still useful to know how things work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2017

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I try to keep it close by, and reference it as much as it makes sense. Really a must have for any serious developer, even if most of the patterns are obsolete these days, it's still useful to know how things work, or how most frameworks are built underneath. Although the languages used are Java, C++ and C# in the book, all the principles apply. It's only up to the reader to know how mature a language is to determine if there is something already available in the framework that they're using or if they need to implement something on their own.

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Martin Anderson

All Developers should read this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2009

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With the increasing usage of higher level languages, the importance of design patterns is also increasing and this book is an excellent compendium of the patterns that you need the most.

While there are a lot of patterns here that can be found among those proposed by the Gang of Four or found at Sun's BluePrints website, the explanations of the significance of the pattern and when and where it should be used makes it invaluable to programmers. The patterns covered are almost perfect in that they cover the most commonly used patterns as well as the patterns that can make the biggest difference. It's not perfect though as there are a couple of patterns that you feel were included to make up the numbers ('Money' being the most obvious offender).

Incidentally, it's also a great source for disambiguation of terms too where disparate teams can use terms from this book as a common reference. Very useful when dealing with remote teams.

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Mike F.

A must-have book for all Enterprise Architects - developer or not!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2021

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Firstly, from comments about the paperweight of the pages, I was expecting to receive something that resembles the pages of a missal, which are very thin. Worry not!

I am a non-developer and have found this an easy read, and dare I say compelling! I don't understand all of it, but it has certainly enhanced my understanding to be better able to comprehend the architecture behind the code I am reviewing.

pacofraggle

One of these books that make you feel confident with your skills

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2013

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I consider this one as a basic reference on my bookshelf. While I found GoF very useful as one of this books that make you think and show you the way to your programmer's career when you are not very experienced, Fowler's book adds the enterprise touch in a way I enjoy each time I get back to the book.
I tells you about those many things in real life applications that you may have not come across yet and you need to develop carefully when you are working in a big project.
The enterprise approach to patterns is light but described in a rigorous manner.

I must confess I enjoy these books that are not tied to a given version of a given language much more than the rest.
The information you get is more open and you get a better understanding of the big picture.
If this one doesn't become a timeless reference (the way our profession changes I wouldn't dare to say so from any book), it will sure stand as a classic of its era.

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Sohnee

A fundamental read for software professionals

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2014

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This book is a fundamental read for software professionals. The benefit of shared language in software design is unquestionable and this book describes the architectural patterns (as opposed to the GoF design patterns, which are more granular). The book is well written, with a surprising amount of humour that makes it an easy read.

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