Pragmatic Architecture
Two divergent sets of activities both fall under the term architecture. One type of architecture strives toward higher levels of abstraction that are more portable across platforms and less connected to the messy details of hardware, networks, electrons, and photons. The extreme form of this approach results in the “ivory tower”—a Kubrickesque clean room, inhabited by aloof gurus, decorated with boxes and arrows on every wall. Decrees emerge from the ivory tower and descend upon the toiling coders. “Use EJB container-managed persistence!” “All UIs shall be constructed with JSF!” “All that is, all that was, and all that shall ever be lives in Oracle!” If you’ve ever gritted your teeth while coding something according to ...
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