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Books Title: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture By Martin Fowler Product details: Paperback: 560 Pages Publisher: Pearson (2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 8131794024 ISBN-13: 978-8131794029 About 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 > Patterns Part 1 - The Narratives Chapter 1: Layering > The Evolution of Layers in Enterprise Applications > The Three Principal Layers > Choosing Where to Run Your Layers Chapter 2: Organizing Domain Logic > Making a Choice > Service Layer Chapter 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 Reading Chapter 4: Web Presentation > View Patterns > Input Controller Patterns > Further Reading Chapter 5: Concurrency > Concurrency Problems > Execution Contexts > Isolation and Immutability > Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency Control > Transactions > Patterns for Offline Concurrency Control > Application Server Concurrency > Further Reading Chapter 6: Session State > The Value of Statelessness > Session State Chapter 7: Distribution Strategies > The Allure of Distributed Objects > Remote and Local Interfaces > Where You Have to Distribute > Working with the Distribution Boundary > Interfaces for Distribution Chapter 8: Putting It All Together > Starting with the Domain Layer > Down to the Data Source Layer > Some Technology-Specific Advice > Other Layering Schemes Part 2 - The Patterns -------------------- Chapter 9: Domain Logic Patterns > Transaction Script > Domain Model > Table Module > Service Layer Chapter 10: Data Source Architectural Patterns > Table Data Gateway > Row Data Gateway > Active Record > Data Mapper Chapter 11: Object-Relational Behavioral Patterns > Unit of Work > Identity Map > Lazy Load Chapter 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 Mappers Chapter 13: Object-Relational Metadata Mapping Patterns > Metadata Mapping > Query Object > Repository Chapter 14: Web Presentation Patterns > Model View Controller > Page Controller > Front Controller > Template View Chapter 15: Distribution Patterns > Remote Facade > Data Transfer Object Chapter 16: Offline Concurrency Patterns > Optimistic Offline Lock > Pessimistic Offline Lock > Coarse-Grained Lock > Implicit Lock Chapter 17: Session State Patterns > Client Session State > Server Session State > Database Session State Chapter 18: Base Patterns > Gateway > Mapper > Layer Supertype > Separated Interface > Registry > Value Object > Money > Special Case > Plugin > Service Stub > Record Set

Patterns of Enterprise Application

Patterns of Enterprise Application

Patterns of Enterprise Application

1Woman on the American Frontier

By William Worthington Fowler

Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised children, and much more. This book is full of mini-biographies of women in many places, and many ages- each chapter telling about a different subject. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her because she is an orphan. But she will surprise everybody. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

This is a sequel to "Concerning Isabel Carnaby". Isabel and Paul Seaton are now happily married. This book tells about their trials and tribulations, their little son, and, of course, their love for each other. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Delightful and touching this wonderful little story should appeal to both the young and young at heart. Having lived happily with their grandmother in a large country home all of their young lives Babs 5, and Teddy 7, suddenly find themselves uprooted to become the temporary charges of an uncle and rather selfish 'society' aunt as they await the return of their parents from INJA. Babs is fearless and her pranks, her embarrassing frankness and many complaints about what she claims are unnecessary rebukes from the adults in her life will make you smile and sometimes break your heart. Enjoy! - Summary by Celine Major

"Then was there war in the house of Baxendale. Guy had made up his mind to wed the fair daughter of the forester; while Sir Stephen and Dame Alice his wife had made up their minds — with equal firmness — that no son of their noble name should mate with a daughter of the people". A rumor started that the girl was a witch and so she was burned. However before she was burned she cursed the family who condemned her: <br> "First by the King, and then by the State, <br> And thirdly by that which is thrice as great <br> As these, and a thousandfold stronger and higher <br> Shall Baxendale Hall be made fuel of fire". <br> Ever since, the Baxendales cannot be truly happy, for they cannot have true love. What is life without love? They do their duty, rule over the land, but cannot be happy. Can the curse be lifted? Can a Baxendale experience true love? <br>This book is a protest against the prominent view of marriage at the time. Against the values of ambition and duty, and of course against social class. It offers a new way to look at marriage, the modern way of true love. A year after publishing this novel, the author, a daughter of a viscount, would marry a senior teacher at a navy school. Not someone from her own class. However the marriage was described as very happy. - Summary from the book's prolog with additions by Stav Nisser.

6Religious Experience of the Roman People

By W. Warde Fowler

A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of the religion of the Roman City-state. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricists and an important contributor to Social Contract Theory. In this fine biography, Thomas Fowler writes of Locke's influence on the history of progress and of civilization. "In an age of excitement and prejudice, he set men the example of thinking calmly and clearly...At a time when the chains of dogma were far tighter, and the penalties of attempting to loosen them far more stringent, than it is now easy to conceive, he raised questions which stirred the very depths of human thought. And all this in a spirit so candid, so tolerant, so liberal, and so unselfish, that he seemed to be writing not for his own party or his own times, but for the future of knowledge and of mankind." (Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the history and religious traditions of ancient Rome — recognized as a peer of James Frazer in the understanding and interpretation of Roman beliefs and their influence on the character of the Roman people. Additionally, Professor Frazer was celebrated as an expert in ornithology, served for a time as curator of the Parks and the Botanic Garden in Oxford, and in 1910 was appointed as the first lay Sub-Rector in Oriel college. Cherished by his students and respected by his colleagues, he remained a tutor at the college until 1910 and in 1920 was elected president of the Classical Association. Professor Frazer died in 1921 at the age of 74.<br><br> "A Year with the Birds" is Professor Fowler's charming, personal record of his observations of bird life in and around Oxford, England and during his travels in the Alps. (Summary by Deborah Beach Giordano)

It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of freedom with most hearty applause. (Summary by narrator, p 66)<br><br> For a number of years it has been on my mind to write a book regarding the principal events that have occurred to the colored race since the beginning of the agitation against slavery, going on from thence to the great Rebellion, passing through that war, and also dealing with all subjects of great importance that have arrested our attention under our glorious freedom. At the same time it has occurred to me . . . that my book would be far more interesting to the general reader, if I were to select a representative woman of our own race, and make her the mouthpiece of all I wished to say. . . . I hope those members of the general public who favor me by a perusal of my book will be pleased with my plan. (From the Preface)