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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

by Martin Fowler
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 4m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 15. Distribution Patterns

Remote Facade

Provides a coarse-grained facade on fine-grained objects to improve efficiency over a network.

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In an object-oriented model, you do best with small objects that have small methods. This gives you lots of opportunity for control and substitution of behavior, and to use good intention revealing naming to make an application easier to understand. One of the consequences of such fine-grained behavior is that there’s usually a great deal of interaction between objects, and that interaction usually requires lots of method invocations.

Within a single address space fine-grained interaction works well, ...

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