Chapter 42. Talk the Talk

Mark Richards is a director and senior solutions architect at Collaborative Consulting, LLC, where he is involved in the architecture and design of large-scale service-oriented architectures in J2EE and other technologies, primarily in the financial services industry. He has been involved in the software industry since 1984, and has significant experience in J2EE architecture and development, object-oriented design and development, and systems integration.

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IN ANY PROFESSION, jargon is used so that individuals within that profession can effectively communicate with one another. Lawyers talk to one another about habeas corpus, voir dire, and venire; carpenters talk to one another about butt joints, lap joints, and flux; and software architects talk to one another about ROA, Two Step View, and Layer Supertype. Wait, what was that?

It is imperative that software architects, regardless of the platform they are working in, have an effective means of communication among one another. One of those means of communication is through architecture and design patterns. To be an effective software architect you must understand the basic architecture and design patterns, recognize when those patterns are being used, know when to apply the patterns, and be able to communicate to other architects and developers using them.

Architecture and design patterns can be ...

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