April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 53m
English
Content preview from Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Chapter 17. The Luther Architecture: A Case Study in Mobile Applications Using J2EE
with Tanya Bass, James Beck, Kelly Dolan, Cuiwei Li, Andreas Löhr, Richard Martin, William Ross, Tobias Weishäupl, and Gregory Zelesnik
Note: All of this chapter's contributors work for Inmedius Corporation in Pittsburgh.
God is in the details.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Workers involved in the maintenance or operation of large vehicles (such as tanks and aircraft) or portions of the industrial infrastructure (such as bridges and oil rigs) have great difficulty using computers to support their tasks. Because the object being maintained or operated is large, work on it must be in situ, outdoors or in special structures, neither of which is conducive to desktop ...