Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

The development of enterprise applications has benefited from the emergence of many new technologies. For example, Java and . NET platforms are now commonplace tools for building powerful applications. Enterprise-application developers can benefit from these tools, but must also understand design lessons that experienced object developers have learned over time. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face today's enterprise-application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin Fowler, noticed that despite changes in technology—from Small talk to CORBA to Java to . NET—the same design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems.