Pressured with tight deadlines, application developers do not have the luxury of keeping completely up-to-date with all of the latest innovations in software engineering. Once in a great while, a tremendous resource comes along that helps these professionals become more efficient. The first two editions of UML Distilled have been perennial best-sellers because of their concise, yet thorough, nature. This eagerly-anticipated third edition allows you to get acquainted with some of the best thinking about efficient object-oriented software design using the latest version of the industry-standard for modeling software: UML 2.0. The author has retained the book's convenient format that has made it an essential resource for anyone who designs software for a living. The book describes all the major UML 2.0 diagram types, what they are intended to do, and the basic notation involved in creating and deciphering them. A true treasure for the software engineering community.

The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin Fowler, noticed that despite changes in technology--from Smalltalk to CORBA to Java to .NET--the same basic design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The result is an indispensable handbook of solutions that are applicable to any enterprise application platform. This book is actually two books in one. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book's lessons. The next section, the bulk of the book, is a detailed reference to the patterns themselves. Each pattern provides usage and implementation information, as well as detailed code examples in Java or C#. The entire book is also richly illustrated with UML diagrams to further explain the concepts. Armed with this book, you will have the knowledge necessary to make important architectural decisions about building an enterprise application and the proven patterns for use when building them. The topics covered include * Dividing an enterprise application into layers * The major approaches to organizing business logic * An in-depth treatment of mapping between objects and relational databases * Using Model-View-Controller to organize a Web presentation * Handling concurrency for data that spans multiple transactions * Designing distributed object interfaces

本书是专门为那些缺乏经验的企业应用开发人员编写的。本书的作者，著名的面向对象设计师Martin Fowler发现如果不考虑Smalltalk、CORBA、Java和.NET在技术上的差异的话，相同的基础设计理念是能够用来解决架构方面的常见问题的。在特约专家组的帮助下，Martin将40余种可重现解决方案提炼成为模式。因此，这本不可或缺的解决方案手册适用于任何企业应用平台。 本书实际上是将两本书合二为一了。本书的第一部分是开发企业应用的简短指南，你可以从中了解到本书所涵盖的内容。第二部分是本书的主体，是关于模式的详细讲解。每种模式都介绍了用法和实现信息，同时还附有相应的Java或C#代码范例。整本书中有大量的UML图，用以进一步解释有关概念。 有了本书的帮助，在确定构建企业应用的架构和实施阶段所用模式时，你将具备必要的知识。 本书要点： ·将企业应用分层 ·组织业务逻辑的主要方法 ·对象和关系数据库之间的映射方法 ·使用MVC来组织Web表示 ·处理涉及多个事务的数据的并发 ·设计分布式对象接口