Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Book

The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned.

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Concurrency Pattern

An object that encapsulates a row from a database table or view, by providing access to the database and adding domain logic. Because the data managing operations are implemented directly on the object, it is tightly coupled to the storage technology.

Model-View-Controller (MVC)

Architectural Pattern

The MVC pattern separates the domain models (model), the presentation (view), and the actions based on external input (controller) into three separate classes.

Repository

Architectural Pattern

A Repository mediates between the domain and data mapping layers, acting like an in-memory domain object collection. Client objects construct query specifications declaratively and submit them to Repository for satisfaction. Objects can be added to and removed from the Repository, as they can from a simple collection of objects, and the mapping code encapsulated by the Repository will carry out the appropriate operations behind the scenes.