- Hardcover: 258 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. 2011 edition (May 5 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3642191754
- ISBN-13: 978-3642191756
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #308,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the reviews of the second edition: “The volume is organized in three main parts, the first of which provides a comprehensive but clear definition of software architecture. The second and third parts are devoted to current and emerging practices, respectively. … This book will be of great help to students of computer science or software engineering, but above all it will provide practitioners with a guide to architecture that they can adopt to help direct their careers and professional development. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (L. Benedicenti, Choice, Vol. 49 (5), January, 2012)
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Job titles like “Technical Architect” and “Chief Architect” nowadays abound in 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 tries to resolve this dilemma. It concisely describes the essential elements of knowledge and key skills required to be a software architect. The explanations encompass the essentials of architecture thinking, practices, and supporting technologies. They range from a general understanding of structure and quality attributes through technical issues like middleware components and service-oriented architectures to recent technologies like model-driven architecture, software product lines, aspect-oriented design, and the Semantic Web, which will presumably influence future software systems. This second edition contains new material covering enterprise architecture, agile development, enterprise service bus technologies, RESTful Web services, and a case study on how to use the MeDICi integration framework. All approaches are illustrated by an ongoing real-world example. So if you work as an architect or senior designer (or want to someday), or if you are a student in software engineering, here is a valuable and yet approachable knowledge source for you.
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12 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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book review -- essential software engineering, July 10 2006
By Ivan Mistrik - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Essential Software Architecture (Hardcover)
This book attempts to bridge the gap between the needs of professional software architects and the current body of knowledge in software architecture. It aims to convey the essence of architecture thinking, practices and supporting technologies and provides concise discussions about the issues, techniques and methods in architectural practices. It also describes and analyzes the general purpose component and middleware technologies that support many of the fundamental architectural patterns used in applications.As an introductory textbook it is very useful for (to be) ICT professionals and students.
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Good solid book on software architecture, April 18 2009
By Michael D. Quick - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Essential Software Architecture (Hardcover)
This book was the textbook for a introduction course to software architecture. I found the textbook quite helpful in learning architectural principles.The core chapters of the book are the first 6 chapters, which provided a strong foundation of knowledge. Chapter 1 introduces the topic by discussing architecture definition, abstraction, views and non-functional requirements plus others. Chapter 2 introduces the study study utilized throughout the book. I got alot out of chapters 3 & 4. Chapter 3 discusses software quality attributes that an architecture should take into consideration. Quality attribute are characteristics of an architecture design rather than capability. Quality attributes are such items as scalability, modifiability, security, performance, portability, etc. Chapter 4 discusses architecture design patterns and technologies applicable to architecture design. Chapter 5 discusses development cycle for defining your software architecture. Chapter 6 discusses how to document the architecture design.
I thought chapter 6 was a bit light in discussing architecture documentation. In the course where this book was the textbook, there was much time spent discussing views and viewpoints. I think chapter 6 should have delved deeper into the view discussion.
I thought the author did an excellent job with this book. There are many different types of software architectures that can be built. Therefore, readers would becoming various technological perspectives in reading this book. I felt he discussed the topics in the chapters in a way that was applicable to this wide audience.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Practical and timely, Mar 10 2007
By Joe T. Marcelino "Joe Marcelino" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Essential Software Architecture (Hardcover)
My Master's project deals with Software Architecture best practices and I turned to this book to help formulate my thoughts. The chapter on Middleware architectures is a valuable read and serves as a unifying framework for thinking about middleware in the architectural sense. The case study used in the book is helpful as well. Overall, you will find this book an excellent introduction to Software Architecture (with a nice dive into middleware and other topics not readily found in other SA books) and a nice read to go along with the other Software Architecture classics from the SEI.
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