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Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman

You're not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns--the lessons learned by those who've faced the same problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others, so that you can spend... (more)

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler

Noted software engineering expert, Martin Fowler, turns his attention to enterprise application development. He helps professionals understand the complex--yet critical--aspects of architecture. Enables the reader to make proper choices when faced with a difficult design decision.

XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

by Gerard Meszaros

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective testing strategy will deliver new functionality more aggressively, accelerate user feedback, and improve quality. However, for many developers, creating effective automated tests is a unique and unfamiliar challenge. xUnit Test Patterns is the definitive guide to writing automated tests using xUnit, the most popular unit testing... (more)

Applied Software Architecture

by Christine Hofmeister, Robert Nord, Dilip Soni

"Designing a large software system is an extremely complicated undertaking that requires juggling differing perspectives and differing goals, and evaluating differing options. Applied Software Architecture is the best book yet that gives guidance as to how to sort out and organize the conflicting pressures and produce a successful design." -- Len Bass, author of Software Architecture in Practice. Quality... (more)

Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

by Mary Shaw

Good software developers often adopt one or several architectural patterns as strategies for system organization. But, although they use these patterns purposefully, they often use them informally and nearly unconsciously. This book organizes this substantial emerging "folklore" of system design -- with its rich language of system description -- and closes the gap between the useful abstractions (constructs and... (more)

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

by Paul Clements

Helps you decide what information to document and then, with guidelines and examples, shows you how to express an architecture in a form that everyone can understand. An important reference on the shelf of the software architect.

Essential Software Architecture

by Ian Gorton

Job titles like "Technical Architect" and "Chief Architect" nowadays abound in the software industry, yet many people suspect that "architecture" is one of the most overused and least understood terms in professional software development. Gorton's book helps resolve this predicament. It concisely describes the essential elements of knowledge and key skills required to be a software architect. The explanations... (more)

Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java

Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java

by Partha Kuchana

Software engineering and computer science students need a resource that explains how to apply design patterns at the enterprise level, allowing them to design and implement systems of high stability and quality.Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java is a detailed explanation of how to apply design patterns and develop software architectures. It provides in-depth examples in Java, and guides students by... (more)

Service Oriented Architecture: Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas)

Service Oriented Architecture: Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas)

by Thomas Erl

“This book could be described as an encyclopedia of service design–Erl leaves nothing to chance. Indispensable.” –Steve Birkel, Chief IT Technical Architect, Intel Corp. “An absolute pleasure to read…the best SOA book I’ve read. A book I would recommend to all of my colleagues; it provides much insight to the topics often overlooked by most books in this genre…the visuals were fantastic.” ... (more)

Reasoning about Rational Agents (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

Reasoning about Rational Agents (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

by Michael J. Wooldridge

One goal of modern computer science is to engineer computer programs that can act as autonomous, rational agents; software that can independently make good decisions about what actions to perform on our behalf and execute those actions. Applications range from small programs that intelligently search the Web buying and selling goods via electronic commerce, to autonomous space probes. This book focuses on ... (more)

Domain-Driven Design Quickly

by Abel Avram, Floyd Marinescu

Domain Driven Design is a vision and approach for dealing with highly complex domains that is based on making the domain itself the main focus of the project, and maintaining a software model that reflects a deep understanding of the domain. This book is a short, quickly-readable summary and introduction to the fundamentals of DDD; it does not introduce any new concepts; it attempts to concisely summarize the... (more)

Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice

Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice

by R. N. Taylor, N. Medvidovic, E. M. Dashofy

Software architecture is foundational to the development of large, practical software-intensive applications. This brand-new text covers all facets of software architecture and how it serves as the intellectual centerpiece of software development and evolution. Critically, this text focuses on supporting creation of real implemented systems. Hence the text details not only modeling techniques, but design,... (more)

Togaf Version 9: A Pocket Guide (Togaf Series)

Togaf Version 9: A Pocket Guide (Togaf Series)

by Van Haren Publishing

This is the official Open Group Pocket Guide for TOGAF Version 9 Enterprise Edition. This pocket guide is published by VHP on behalf of The Open Group. TOGAF, The Open Group Architectural Framework is a fast growing, worldwide accepted standard that can help organisations build their own Enterprise Architecture in a standardised way. This book explains why the in s and out s of TOGAF in a concise manner. This book... (more)

Togaf Version 9 - A Manual (TOGAF Series)

Togaf Version 9 - A Manual (TOGAF Series)

by The Open Group

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a framework - a detailed method and a set of supporting tools - for developing an enterprise architecture, developed by members of The Open Group Architecture Forum. This 2008 Edition is based on TOGAF Version 9.0. As a comprehensive, open method for enterprise architecture, TOGAF 9 complements, and can be used in conjunction with, other frameworks that are more... (more)

MDA Distilled (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

MDA Distilled (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

by Stephen J. Mellor, Kendall Scott, Axel Uhl, Dirk Weise

The Object Management Group (OMG) has forwarded the cause of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) as a more effective means of building software. In this new book, object technology experts demystify the intricacies of MDA so that the reader can get up-to-speed quickly and leverage the significant power of the standard. The book gently introduces MDA, and explains how it is designed to integrate disparate and evolving... (more)

MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture--Practice and Promise

MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture--Practice and Promise

by Anneke G. Kleppe

"Jos Warmer's work has contributed greatly to the semantics of the UML. From that perspective, and in this book, he offers insight on how one can and can't use the UML to move to the next level of abstraction in building systems." -Grady Booch Experienced application developers often invest more time in building models than they do in actually writing code. Why? Well-constructed models make it easier to deliver... (more)

Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing

Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing

by David Frankel

* Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new methodologyf rom OMG that uses modeling languages like UML along with programming languages like Java to build software architectures * PriceWatersCoopers' prestigious Technology Center just predicted that MDA will be one of the most important methodologies in the next two years * Written by the lead architect of the specification who provides inside information... (more)

Design Patterns Java Workbook

by Steven John Metsker

Presents examples, exercises, and challenges that enable you to grapple with alternative approaches and discover practical subtleties in applying design pattern theory to realistic problems. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (3rd Edition)

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (3rd Edition)

by Grady Booch

Object-Oriented Design with Applications has long been the essential reference to object-oriented technology, which, in turn, has evolved to join the mainstream of industrial-strength software development. In this third edition--the first revision in 13 years--readers can learn to apply object-oriented methods using new paradigms such as Java, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, and .NET. The authors... (more)

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