Essential Software Architecture

By: Ian Gorton

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Hardcover | 6 May 2011 | Edition Number 2

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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.

Industry Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

Choice - Oustanding Academic Title in 2012

"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)

"A subset of the software system architecture discipline is discussed in this book. ... Gorton begins with an overall description of what he calls 'the subdiscipline known as software architecture.' ... useful in the technical library of a large financial institution for those engaged in major systems development and evolution." (Mordechai Ben-Menachem, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2012)

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Understanding Software Architecture	p. 1
What is Software Architecture?	p. 1
Definitions of Software Architecture	p. 2
Architecture Defines Structure	p. 3
Architecture Specifies Component Communication	p. 4
Architecture Addresses Nonfunctional Requirements	p. 5
Architecture Is an Abstraction	p. 6
Architecture Views	p. 7
What Does a Software Architect Do?	p. 8
Architectures and Technologies	p. 9
Architect Title Soup	p. 11
Summary	p. 12
Further Reading	p. 13
General Architecture	p. 13
Architecture Requirements	p. 13
Architecture Patterns	p. 14
Technology Comparisons	p. 14
Enterprise Architecture	p. 15
Introducing the Case Study	p. 17
Overview	p. 17
The ICDE System	p. 17
Project Context	p. 19
Business Goals	p. 21
Constraints	p. 22
Summary	p. 22
Software Quality Attributes	p. 23
Quality Attributes	p. 23
Performance	p. 24
Throughput	p. 24
Response Time	p. 25
Deadlines	p. 25
Performance for the ICDE System	p. 26
Scalability	p. 27
Request Load	p. 27
Simultaneous Connections	p. 29
Data Size	p. 29
Deployment	p. 30
Some Thoughts on Scalability	p. 30
Scalability for the ICDE Application	p. 30
Modifiability	p. 30
Modifiability for the ICDE Application	p. 33
Security	p. 33
Security for the ICDE Application	p. 34
Availability	p. 34
Availability for the ICDE Application	p. 35
Integration	p. 35
Integration for the ICDE Application	p. 36
Other Quality Attributes	p. 36
Design Trade-Offs	p. 37
Summary	p. 37
Further Reading	p. 38
An Introduction to Middleware Architectures and Technologies	p. 39
Introduction	p. 39
Middleware Technology Classification	p. 40
Distributed Objects	p. 41
Message-Oriented Middleware	p. 43
Mom Basics	p. 44
Exploiting Mom Advanced Features	p. 45
Publish-Subscribe	p. 50
Application Servers	p. 54
Enterprise JavaBeans	p. 55
Ejb Component Model	p. 56
Stateless Session Bean Programming Example	p. 57
Message-Driven Bean Programming Example	p. 58
Responsibilities of the Ejb Container	p. 59
Some Thoughts	p. 60
Summary	p. 61
Further Reading	p. 62
Corba	p. 62
Message-Oriented Middleware	p. 62
Application Servers	p. 63
Service-Oriented Architectures and Technologies	p. 65
Background	p. 65
Service-Oriented Systems	p. 66
Boundaries Are Explicit	p. 68
Services Are Autonomous	p. 69
Share Schemas and Contracts, Not Implementations	p. 69
Service Compatibility Is Based on Policy	p. 70
Web Services	p. 71
Soap and Messaging	p. 73
Uddi, Wsdl, and Metadata	p. 74
Security, Transactions, and Reliability	p. 77
Restful Web Services	p. 78
Conclusion and Further Reading	p. 79
Advanced Middleware Technologies	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Message Brokers	p. 81
Business Process Orchestration	p. 87
Integration Architecture Issues	p. 91
What Is an Enterprise Service Bus	p. 95
Further Reading	p. 95
A Software Architecture Process	p. 97
Process Outline	p. 97
Determine Architectural Requirements	p. 98
Identifying Architecture Requirements	p. 98
Prioritizing Architecture Requirements	p. 99
Architecture Design	p. 101
Choosing the Architecture Framework	p. 102
Allocate Components	p. 108
Validation	p. 110
Using Scenarios	p. 111
Prototyping	p. 113
Summary and Further Reading	p. 114
Documenting a Software Architecture	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
What to Document	p. 118
Uml 2.0	p. 119
Architecture Views	p. 120
More on Component Diagrams	p. 123
Architecture Documentation Template	p. 126
Summary and Further Reading	p. 127
Case Study Design	p. 129
Overview	p. 129
ICDE Technical Issues	p. 129
Large Data	p. 129
Notification	p. 131
Data Abstraction	p. 131
Platform and Distribution Issues	p. 131
Api Issues	p. 132
Discussion	p. 133
ICDE Architecture Requirements	p. 133
Overview of Key Objectives	p. 133
Architecture Use Cases	p. 134
Stakeholder Architecture Requirements	p. 134
Constraints	p. 136
Nonfunctional Requirements	p. 136
Risks	p. 137
ICDE Solution	p. 137
Architecture Patterns	p. 137
Architecture Overview	p. 138
Structural Views	p. 139
Behavioral Views	p. 142
Implementation Issues	p. 145
Architecture Analysis	p. 145
Scenario Analysis	p. 145
Risks	p. 146
Summary	p. 146
Middleware Case Study: Medici	p. 147
Medici Background	p. 147
Medici Hello World	p. 148
Implementing Modules	p. 151
MifProcessor	p. 151
MifObjectProcessor	p. 151
MifMessageProcessor	p. 152
Module Properties	p. 152
Endpoints and Transports	p. 153
Connectors	p. 153
Supported Transports	p. 154
Medici Example	p. 157
Initialize Pipeline	p. 158
Chat Component	p. 159
Implementation code	p. 161
Component Builder	p. 161
Summary	p. 163
Further Reading	p. 163
Looking Forward	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
The Challenges of Complexity	p. 165
Business Process Complexity	p. 166
Agility	p. 167
Reduced Costs	p. 168
What Next	p. 169
The Semantic Web	p. 171
ICDE and the Semantic Web	p. 171
Automated, Distributed Integration and Collaboration	p. 172
The Semantic Web	p. 173
Creating and Using Metadata for the Semantic Web	p. 174
Putting Semantics in the Web	p. 176
Semantics for ICDE	p. 178
Semantic Web Services	p. 180
Continued Optimism	p. 181
Further Reading	p. 182
Aspect Oriented Architectures	p. 185
Aspects for ICDE Development	p. 185
Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming	p. 186
Crosscutting Concerns	p. 186
Managing Concerns with Aspects	p. 187
Aop Syntax and Programming Model	p. 188
Weaving	p. 189
Example of a Cache Aspect	p. 190
Aspect-Oriented Architectures	p. 191
Architectural Aspects and Middleware	p. 192
State-of-the-Art	p. 193
Aspect Oriented Modeling in Uml	p. 193
Aop Tools	p. 193
Annotations and Aop	p. 194
Performance Monitoring of ICDE with AspectWerkz	p. 195
Conclusions	p. 197
Further Reading	p. 198
Model-Driven Architecture	p. 201
Model-Driven Development for ICDE	p. 201
What is Mda?	p. 203
Why Mda?	p. 205
Portability	p. 205
Interoperability	p. 206
Reusability	p. 207
State-of-Art Practices and Tools	p. 208
AndroMda	p. 208
ArcStyler	p. 209
Eclipse Modeling Framework	p. 209
Mda and Software Architecture	p. 210
Mda and Nonfunctional Requirements	p. 211
Model Transformation and Software Architecture	p. 211
Soa and Mda	p. 212
Analytical Models are Models Too	p. 212
Mda for ICDE Capacity Planning	p. 214
Summary and Further Reading	p. 216
Software Product Lines	p. 219
Product Lines for ICDE	p. 219
Software Product Lines	p. 220
Benefiting from Spl Development	p. 222
Product Lines for ICDE	p. 223
Product Line Architecture	p. 223
Find and Understand Software	p. 224
Bring Software into the Development Context	p. 225
Invoke Software	p. 225
Software Configuration Management for Reuse	p. 225
Variation Mechanisms	p. 227
Architecture-Level Variation Points	p. 227
Design-Level Variation	p. 227
File-Level Variation	p. 228
Variation by Software Configuration Management	p. 228
Product Line Architecture for ICDE	p. 228
Adopting Software Product Line Development	p. 229
Product Line Adoption Practice Areas	p. 231
Product Line Adoption for ICDE	p. 231
Ongoing Software Product Line Development	p. 232
Change Control	p. 232
Architectural Evolution for Spl Development	p. 233
Product Line Development Practice Areas	p. 234
Product Lines with ICDE	p. 234
Conclusions	p. 235
Further Reading	p. 236
Index	p. 239
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