Software Fortresses: Modeling Enterprise Architectures - Softcover

Sessions, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321166086 ISBN 13: 9780321166081

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003

Synopsis

While UML is very effective at modeling software systems, it is deficient in its ability to help practitioners understand how software systems interact -- this is where the software fortress model picks up. The vendor-independent software fortress model treats enterprise systems as a series of self-contained software fortresses. Each fortress makes its own choices as to software platform and data storage mechanisms, and interacts with other fortresses through carefully crafted treaties. This unique approach simplifies the enterprise. It helps the software professional truly understand how systems interact. This book defines, clarifies, and explains the basics of software fortresses. The author believes this new approach will grow in popularity and evolve over time, and this book will be the genesis of a popular enterprise development movement.

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About the Author

Roger Sessions is one of the world's leading experts in enterprise software architectures and the developer of the software fortress model. He has written six books and dozens of articles. He writes and publishes ObjectWatch, a widely read, highly regarded newsletter covering hotly debated topics on high-end software technologies. More than 50,000 people have attended his architect-level workshops in more than 30 countries.

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From the Back Cover

This book introduces a new approach for modeling large enterprise systems: the software fortress model. In the software fortress model, an enterprise architecture is viewed as a series of self-contained, mutually suspicious, marginally cooperating software fortresses interacting with each other through carefully crafted and meticulously managed treaty relationships.

The software fortress model is an intuitive, simple, expressive approach that maps readily to existing technologies such as .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This book is designed to meet an immediate need to define, clarify, and explain the basics of this new modeling methodology for large enterprise software architectures.

Software Fortresses is your essential roadmap to all aspects of software fortresses.

Key topics include:

The fundamental concepts and terminology of software fortresses

Documentation techniques, including Fortress Ally Responsibility Cards (based on Class Responsibility Cards) and Sequence Ally Diagrams (based on UML's Class Sequence Diagrams)

The proper use of drawbridges to provide fortress interoperability

The innovative software fortress model for enterprise security

Correct design approaches to fortress walls, which keep intruders out, and to guards, which let allies in.

The role of loosely coupled and tightly coupled transactions in a software fortress architecture

Design and technology issues associated with the six major software fortress types

This book is a must-read for all enterprise software professionals, whether you are a manager seeking to rein in run-away enterprise system complexity, an architect seeking to design interoperable, scalable, and highly secure systems, a consultant expected to give advice on how .NET and J2EE fit into the enterprise space, an implementer wanting to understand how your system relates to a larger enterprise architecture, or a business analyst needing to know that your system requirements will be translated into a successful software implementation.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321166086
• ISBN 13: 9780321166081
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304