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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A fantastic pattern reference - 2009-07-11
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is an absolutely indispensable reference - if you're in the business of writing Enterprise Applications. Clearly and articulately presented, with lots of hard-won wisdom and insight - it's more topically relevant than to enterprise applications than the gang of four, etc - and of equally high quality.

A masterpiece creation - 2009-09-14
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P of EAA is a bible for Enterprise Design Patterns.The patterns described in the book have become industry best practices with a lot of sources referring to these and providing solutions around these patterns.I would place this book in the category of best pattern books of all time along with the GOF and POSA.It is worth mentioning that anyone working on Enterprise Application Architecture will find this book as a very important weapon-one without which its difficult to win the battle-in their armory.

Must have if you want to know - 2009-06-10
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From the get go this book stands out as a very solid review on the subject. Highly recommend to anyone who needs serious advise on the subject.

Crappiest architecture book - 2009-05-27
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This is one of the stinky and crappiest architecture book I have read.

The more i read the more I was frustated and reading further.

The sample code doesnt match the explanation provided. The sentences are so vague seems that the author was drunk while writting this book ..

The best part of the book is the title very fancy and inviting .. but the book is really a crap.

I would recommend
Framework Design Guidelines


Ramesh Babu Veeramani

Great book - 2009-05-17
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This is one of the most useful books about patterns I've found. This book was recommended by my lecturer at university and do not regret buying it.

You have to have some programming experience or you miss most of the value of this book. Although most of the examples are in Java or C# and I haven't use those languages regularly it was not difficult to understand them. Nevertheless, knowing the basics of Object-Oriented programming is a must.

This book has found a solid location in my bookshelf in the handbooks section.

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