Chapter 6Thinking EDA
A Novel Mind-Set
Event-driven architecture (EDA) requires a quite novel mind-set when it comes to application design and IT architecture. The goal of this chapter is to get you started on “thinking EDA” as you approach your architectural and application development work. Luckily for you, some of the groundwork for thinking in EDA terms has already been covered with the advent of object-oriented programming and the Web. However, old habits die hard, and thinking in EDA terms typically means erasing a lot of conventional software architecture concepts from your mind. When you think EDA, you want to reduce central control of application flow. You need to enable autonomous behavior in application components and allow ...
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