Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
by Martin Fowler

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• Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
• Implementation Patterns
• Java CAPS Basics: Implementing Common EAI Patterns

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Book Review: The right path to creating enterprise applications.
Summary: 5 Stars

Lazy load - where an object will load only the data currently needed, but does maintain links to all other data that may be needed.

Front controller - a single handler object that consolidates all requests made for a web site. It can then send requests to the specific objects for services such as security, internationalization issues and specific displays targeted for particular users and locations.

Optimistic offline lock - used to prevent conflicts when concurrent business transactions are executing. The solution is to roll back the transaction when a conflict is detected.

Server session state - keeps the data for the session stored on a server in a serialized form.

While the examples are often of necessity extremely simple, they do illustrate some of the most effective and tested solutions to common software development problems. Therefore, this is a book that no builder of software that can be considered an enterprise application should be without. It is hard to believe that there is an enterprise application being constructed anywhere that does not involve the solving of many of the problems listed in this book.
My only complaint is the occasional bad English that appears. For example, on page 100 there is the phrase, "The only reason I've concentrating on Java . . . " and on page 119 the phrase "One factor that comes into this is comfortable used the development team is . . . " appears. While no book is error free, this type of error is frequent enough to make one wonder about the quality of the final editing.
There is nothing harder than making effective and efficient software that will run the IT equivalent of forever. That is what enterprise applications are supposed to do and if you are one of the minions tasked with doing your part to build one, then put yourself on the right path and read this book. You and everyone else who interacts with the software will be rewarded with a better experience.

Published in the online "Journal of Object Technology", reprinted with permission.

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