Enterprise Architectural Patterns
A ChiliPLoP™
2003 Hot Topic
Organizers
Martin Fowler (ThoughtWorks)Kyle Brown (IBM)John Crupi (Sun)David Trowbridge (Microsoft)
In the last couple of years we've seen a number of books and web sites that
have been looking to capture patterns that are valuable in building enterprise
software (see the reading list below). What we all know, however, is that
there's plenty of gaps and much more work to be done. This session aims to
bring together various people who are working on patterns in enterprise
software to help explore gaps and refine work in progress.
We are imagining two main kinds of activity that we'll be doing.
- Pattern Mining: finding areas where there are gaps in the enterprise patterns literature and diving into those areas to produce outlines of patterns for writing up later
- Pattern Workshops: taking some enterprise software patterns and reviewing them.
We intend this to be a pretty active session, so we are inviting people who
have made a start to come along and share their ideas. We expect attendees to
have at least delved into some area of enterprise software and developed ideas
for patterns in that area, which we can then refine with a group pattern
mining exercise. If you've gone further and actually written some patterns up,
all the better.
If you're interested in coming along, please send email to Martin
Fowler (fowler@acm.org) and include an
summary of the relevant work that you've done.
Some suggested readings:
Books
- Core J2EE Patterns - Alur, Crupi and Malks
- Enterprise EJB Patterns - Marinescu
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Fowler
Web Sites