Application and Technical Architecture Issues

Books

Dennis, Alan, et al. Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML. New York: Wiley, 2002. Good guide to using UML for object-oriented design.

Edwards, W. Keith. Core JINI. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999. JINI is Sun's initiative on peer-oriented architectures.

Freeman, Eric, Hupfer, Susan, Arnold, Ken. JavaSpaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practice. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Meyer, Bertrand. Object-Oriented Software Construction. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1988. Classic text on object-oriented software development. One of the early treatments of design by contract, with consistent use of preconditions and postconditions.

Rechtin, Eberhardt, Maier, Mark W. The Art of Systems Architecting. Florida: CRC Press LLC, 1997.

Rinehart, Martin. Java Database Development. Berkeley: McGraw-Hill, 1998. Using Java as a wrapper for relational databases.

Singh, Inderjeet, et al. Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002. J2EE is the Java framework for enterprise architecture.

Sowizral, Henry, et al. The Java 3D API Specification. Cambridge: Addison-Wesley, 2000.

Walrath, Kathy, Campione, Mary. The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to Constructing GUIs. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1999. Java's interface-building kit.

Magazine and Web Articles

Berners-Lee, Tim. 1-Sep-98. Web Architecture from 50,000 ft. Web article: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html.

Bray, Tim, Guha, R. V. 17-Dec-01. An MCF Tutorial. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML-970624/MCF-tutorial.html.

Hayes, Brian. May/Jun-02. Terabyte Territory. American Scientist 90:212–216. Trends in disk storage.

Hokel, Thomas A. 1993–2000. The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture. Web article: http://www.frameworksoft.com/html/body_zf_overview.html.

Hurst, Walter. 1-May-02. The Critical Role of Application Architecture. Java Developers Journal. Available at http://www.wakesoft.com/docucenter.html. Making the case for establishing an architecture rather than just adding on to the existing architecture.

Melnik, Sergey. 13-Jun-01. Generic Interoperability. Web article: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/ginf/.

Melnik, Sergey, Decker, Stefan. 4-Sep-00. A Layered Approach to Information Modeling and Interoperability on the Web. Web article: http://www-db.standford.edu/~melnik/pub/sw00/. Excellent article on the layers of metadata and how they need to be architected.

Turner, Roy M. 1-Mar-98. Context-Mediated Behavior for Intelligent Agents. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 48(3):307–330. Available at http://cdps.umcs.maine.edu/Papers/1998/IJHCS-Context/. Key role of context.

Zachman, John. 19-Oct-02. Information Systems Architecture—ISA. Web page: http://www.istis.unomaha.edu/isqa/vanvliet/arch/isa/isa-rows.htm.

Zachman, John A. 6-Jul-02. Enterprise Architecture: A Framework. Web article: http://www.zifa.com/zifajz02.html. The Zachman framework is a widely accepted framework for organizing all the aspects of an enterprise's technical infrastructure.

Zachman, John A. 6-Jul-02. Enterprise Architecture: The Issue of the Century. Web article: http://www.zifa.com/zifajz01.htm.

Zachman, John A. 13-May-02. Concepts of the Framework for Enterprise Architecture: Background, Description and Utility. Web article: http://www.members.ozemail.com.au/‘visible/papers/zachman3.html.