IBM WebSphere V5.0 Security: WebSphere Handbook Series

11.1. Patterns for e-business

Patterns for e-business are a group of reusable assets developed to facilitate and speed up the process of solution design for e-business applications. Their purpose is to capture and publish e-business artifacts that have been used, tested and proven. The information captured by them is assumed to fit the majority, or an 80/20 situation.

Depending on the pattern used, we can talk about logical (based on conceptual modules and building blocks) or physical/runtime architectures. Patterns are usually used as a generic type of solution that can address a family of problems. It needs tailoring to make them an effective solution and they must be customized to include all the aspects of the IT environment where the solution ...