Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration
by Stephen P. Berczuk, Brad Appleton
Foreword
Those of you familiar with my work may be asking yourselves why an expert on J2EE software architecture would be writing a preface for a book on software configuration management (SCM). After all, the two disciplines couldn't be farther apart, could they? J2EE architecture seems lofty and exalted, while SCM might appear to be something that is down in the muck of the trenches of software development. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Over the years, I've often found that customers that I work with who have problems with J2EE application architecture usually have serious problems with SCM as well.
The reasons for this curious coincidence are twofold. First, many people have a hard time dealing with change in general—be it ...
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