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Hands-On Software Architecture with Java

By : Giuseppe Bonocore
5 (1)
Book Image

Hands-On Software Architecture with Java

5 (1)
By: Giuseppe Bonocore

Overview of this book

Well-written software architecture is the core of an efficient and scalable enterprise application. Java, the most widespread technology in current enterprises, provides complete toolkits to support the implementation of a well-designed architecture. This book starts with the fundamentals of architecture and takes you through the basic components of application architecture. You'll cover the different types of software architectural patterns and application integration patterns and learn about their most widespread implementation in Java. You'll then explore cloud-native architectures and best practices for enhancing existing applications to better suit a cloud-enabled world. Later, the book highlights some cross-cutting concerns and the importance of monitoring and tracing for planning the evolution of the software, foreseeing predictable maintenance, and troubleshooting. The book concludes with an analysis of the current status of software architectures in Java programming and offers insights into transforming your architecture to reduce technical debt. By the end of this software architecture book, you'll have acquired some of the most valuable and in-demand software architect skills to progress in your career.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Fundamentals of Software Architectures
7
Section 2: Software Architecture Patterns
14
Section 3: Architectural Context

Chapter 3: Common Architecture Design Techniques

In the previous chapter, Chapter 2, Software Requirements – Collecting, Documenting, Managing, we highlighted techniques to retrieve and analyze the features an application should have. This is done by interacting with the business and other stakeholders and describing what the desired behavior should be. We now have all the ingredients needed to start baking our application. The first—very important—step is to define the architecture.

It is debated as to how much, in terms of resources, you should invest in this phase. Some experts argue that architecture design is the most important phase, while others claim that it's crucial to keep a flexible approach, being able to adapt the architecture while the solution is evolving according to new ideas coming in or shifting external conditions.

For sure, both ideas are interesting and have some strong points. Whatever your point of view on that is, it is really...