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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 content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 4m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface

In the spring of 1999 I flew to Chicago to consult on a project being done by ThoughtWorks, a small but rapidly growing application development company. The project was one of those ambitious enterprise application projects: a back-end leasing system. Essentially it deals with everything that happens to a lease after you’ve signed on the dotted line: sending out bills, handling someone upgrading one of the assets on the lease, chasing people who don’t pay their bills on time, and figuring out what happens when someone returns the assets early. That doesn’t sound too bad until you realize that leasing agreements are infinitely varied and horrendously complicated. The business “logic” rarely fits any logical pattern, because, after all, ...

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ISBN: 0321127420