Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Would have been a great book 2-3 years ago:

First, I'd like to say that I think Marin Fowler is awesome. I've been a long time fan of his and I really enjoy his talks and his books. So when you read this review, you can tell that it pains me to write what I have to say. I don't want to rip apart his book so that he potentially sells fewer copies - that's not my intention at all. By writing 3 books myself, I appreciate that authors don't make a lot of money for developing the book itself. Usually people like Martin write books for the experience and... more info

Excellent book - a must read:

This is by far the best description of enterprise patterns I have read to date.

Fowler points out that none of these patterns are new (and many have been around for a long while), but never have I seen such a vast array of useful enterprise patterns so well documented.

I had heard and/or seen a lot of these patterns already, but the way he describes the patterns and the trade offs involved in choosing the patterns is truly awesome.

The first half of the book is a discussion of enterprise architecture... more info

Design Patterns at the implementation level for J2EE, .NET:

This book is a little more implementation specific than the incredibly popular Gang of Four Design Patterns book. Many of the patterns, the Data Transfer Object pattern, for example, are fairly specific to the J2EE structural problem at hand. Other patterns, like the Lazy Load, are good architectural patterns on any platform. There is enough generic content to justify the purchase of the book for architects implementing on any platform (J2EE, .NET, PHP, etc.) but it does favor the two current platforms de... more info

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