Claus Witt » application architecture http://www.clauswitt.com software and web developer Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:07:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture http://www.clauswitt.com/patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture/ http://www.clauswitt.com/patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:00:50 +0000 Claus Witt http://www.clauswitt.com/?p=342 I decided at the beginning of this year to start reading more. I have read a lot of books in the past, but in the last couple of years I have been neglecting this form of learning. So I decided to go to the library and get all the books from my Amazon wish list. This has two good consequences – first of all I start reading books with a lot of wisdom in them without paying for them, and second I get to delete the books from my amazon wishlist which I found to lack in quality.

One of the books which are still in my wishlist is “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture”. It is a phenomenal book, or rather catalog, of design patterns specifically for enterprise software, but most of them are universally usable. I first heard about this book when the FLOW3 project started, and now having read the book I find it easier to understand some of the architectural decisions made by the FLOW3 team. Furthermore the FLOW3 framework made it a lot easier to understand a lot of the patterns from the book. since many of them has a implementation in the framework.

The author, Martin Fowler, has published a short overview of each of the patterns at http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/.

It is hard to go into detail about the book, since it would involve discussing a lot of the patterns – but I would just recommend it for any developer, you will learn something!

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