Essential Software Architecture

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. 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. " "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."--P. [4] of cover Essential Software Architecture......Page 4 Motivation......Page 6 Outline......Page 7 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Contents......Page 12 Chapter 1: Understanding Software Architecture......Page 18 Chapter 2: Introducing the Case Study......Page 33 Chapter 3: Software Quality Attributes......Page 39 Chapter 4: An Introduction to Middleware Architectures and Technologies......Page 55 Chapter 5: Service-Oriented Architectures and Technologies......Page 80 Chapter 6: Advanced Middleware Technologies......Page 96 Chapter 7: A Software Architecture Process......Page 112 Chapter 8: Documenting a Software Architecture......Page 131 Chapter 9: Case Study Design......Page 143 Chapter 10: Middleware Case Study: MeDICi......Page 161 Chapter 11: Looking Forward......Page 179 Chapter 12: The Semantic Web......Page 184 Chapter 13: Aspect Oriented Architectures......Page 197 Chapter 14: Model-Driven Architecture......Page 212 Chapter 15: Software Product Lines......Page 229 Index......Page 248