Books Title: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture By Martin FowlerProduct details:Paperback: 560 PagesPublisher: Pearson (2012)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 8131794024ISBN-13: 978-8131794029About Books: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.=================================================================================Table of Contents:-------------------> Who This Book Is For> Acknowledgments> Colophon Introduction> Architecture> Enterprise Applications> Kinds of Enterprise Application> Thinking About Performance> PatternsPart 1 - The NarrativesChapter 1: Layering> The Evolution of Layers in Enterprise Applications> The Three Principal Layers> Choosing Where to Run Your LayersChapter 2: Organizing Domain Logic> Making a Choice> Service LayerChapter 3: Mapping to Relational Databases> Architectural Patterns> The Behavioral Problem> Reading in Data> Structural Mapping Patterns> Building the Mapping> Using Metadata> Database Connections> Some Miscellaneous Points> Further ReadingChapter 4: Web Presentation> View Patterns> Input Controller Patterns> Further ReadingChapter 5: Concurrency> Concurrency Problems> Execution Contexts> Isolation and Immutability> Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency Control> Transactions> Patterns for Offline Concurrency Control> Application Server Concurrency> Further ReadingChapter 6: Session State> The Value of Statelessness> Session StateChapter 7: Distribution Strategies> The Allure of Distributed Objects> Remote and Local Interfaces> Where You Have to Distribute> Working with the Distribution Boundary> Interfaces for DistributionChapter 8: Putting It All Together> Starting with the Domain Layer> Down to the Data Source Layer> Some Technology-Specific Advice> Other Layering SchemesPart 2 - The Patterns--------------------Chapter 9: Domain Logic Patterns> Transaction Script> Domain Model> Table Module> Service LayerChapter 10: Data Source Architectural Patterns> Table Data Gateway> Row Data Gateway> Active Record> Data MapperChapter 11: Object-Relational Behavioral Patterns> Unit of Work> Identity Map> Lazy LoadChapter 12: Object-Relational Structural Patterns> Identity Field> Foreign Key Mapping> Association Table Mapping> Dependent Mapping> Embedded Value> Serialized LOB> Single Table Inheritance> Class Table Inheritance> Concrete Table Inheritance> Inheritance MappersChapter 13: Object-Relational Metadata Mapping Patterns> Metadata Mapping> Query Object> RepositoryChapter 14: Web Presentation Patterns> Model View Controller> Page Controller> Front Controller> Template ViewChapter 15: Distribution Patterns> Remote Facade> Data Transfer ObjectChapter 16: Offline Concurrency Patterns> Optimistic Offline Lock> Pessimistic Offline Lock> Coarse-Grained Lock> Implicit LockChapter 17: Session State Patterns> Client Session State> Server Session State> Database Session StateChapter 18: Base Patterns> Gateway> Mapper> Layer Supertype> Separated Interface> Registry> Value Object> Money> Special Case> Plugin> Service Stub> Record Set