Pattern-oriented Software Architecture: A Pattern Language For Distributed Computing, Volume 4

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (POSA) Volume 4 furnishes significant information about a pattern language for distributed computing. The book walks you through the best practices and introduces you to key areas of building distributed software systems. POSA 4 connects many stand-alone patterns, pattern collections and pattern languages from the existing body of literature found in the POSA series. The panel of experts provides you with a consistent and coherent holistic view on the craft of building distributed systems.

Table of contents :
Foreword
About this Book
About the Authors
Guide to the Reader

Part I. Some Concepts
· On Patterns and Pattern Languages
· On Distributed Systems
· On the Pattern Language


Part II A Story
· Warehouse Management Process Control
· Base-line Architecture
· Communication Middleware
· Warehouse Topology
· The Story Behind the Pattern Story

Part III The Language
· From Mud to Structure
· Distribution Infrastructure
· Event Demultiplexing and Dispatching
· Interface Partitioning
· Component Partitioning
· Application Control
· Concurrency
· Synchronization
· Object Interaction
· Adaptation and Extension
· Modal Behavior
· Resource Management
· Database Access
· A Departing Thought
Glossary
References
Index of Patterns
Index of Names
Index

Market Description :
· Pure practitioners, Professional Software Architects and Advanced students involved in developing software for distributed computing systems

· Programmers and developers operating in an O-O environment interested in patterns.

· Non-theorist members of the software community

About Author :
Frank Buschmann, Siemens AG, Germany
Kevlin Henney, Curbralan, Bristol, UK
Douglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA