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Title: Software Architect Bootcamp, Second Edition by Thomas J. Mowbray, Raphael Malveau ISBN: 0-13-141227-2 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 18 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (26 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I would recommend Bootcamp for Novices and Pros
Comment: Written in an unusual style, Bootcamp had immediate appeal. My first reaction as a practicing Architect was that I didn't need a Bootcamp and the material would be too basic. I was pleasantly suprised.
Scattered throughout the book are numerous focus sections written in the style of Essays. I consider some of the material "very basic" but good for novices and a strong wake-up call to long time practicioners about the essentials of being a Software Architect.
The book was co-sponsored by the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects (WWISA, ... ). I urge anyone interested in the developing profession of Software Architect to visit the site.
Bootcamp provides not only useful details on just emerging Software Architecture approaches but places many of these within a historical framework - more than you would gain from a simple survey of the supporting white and academic papers.
Bootcamp is also a decent journeyman's How-To. In my first pass, I jumped around to different sections that gained my interest and was rarely disappointed. From an introductory section on the use of UML to a small section (9.9) labeled Psychological Akido: Guarding your Gourd, I found Bootcamp to speak to our (Software Architects) current needs.
Bootcamp rarely travels into a fuzzy haze. I do believe the authors' zeal for RM-ODP came across a bit too strong - but perhaps they know something I do not know. I am on my second pass through the book and have a better understanding of the goals of the work.
I recommend Bootcamp for novices and experts alike. It is a good starter kit as well as providing comfort to all practicioners that they are not alone.
Rating: 4
Summary: Poorly edited but lives up to title
Comment: The title of this book is appropriate because bootcamp is an intense indoctrination of fundamental skills and discipline. Bootcamp prepares recruits for the real world in which they are further trained in a specialty and become part of a team that has a shared mission.
In the case of software architecture, this book's approach to bootcamp is narrow in that it focuses on component-based architecture instead of a more general and encompassing treatment of this aspect of software engineering. Despite the narrow focus, this book covers some important fundamentals that will serve the new or aspiring architect well in his or her career path or job.
What I like most about the book is that it's independent of vendors and products. The foundation is, instead, based on standards and methods that are important to the discipline of software engineering in the component-based development domain. An excellent example is RM-ODP (Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing), which allows you to decompose an architecture into viewpoints to examine specific dimensions of requirements. Even if you do not adopt RM-ODP, the paradigm is a great foundation for architecture. Moreover, the Unified Modeling Language (UML)is placed into context with respect to architecture. Finally, although I personally believe CORBA has some problems, the mechanics and concepts are solid foundation material for understanding object request broker infrastructure as one building block of an architecture.
There are some things I do not like about the book. The oscillations between high- and low-level details are akin to a roller coaster and it's disorienting to a reader who is intent on learning the basics of architecture. The lack of good editing makes the book read like a patchwork instead of an "intense indoctrination."
Editing and writing problems notwithstanding, this book is a worthwhile (if ponderous) resource on an important aspect of software architecture for the new practitioner. Although the focus is on component-based development, the fundamentals can be extended into a more general view of architecture that will prepare the architect for his or her specialization in the real world.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very uneven
Comment: The book starts out great, talking about the architect role and what an architect should and shouldn't do. After a dozen pages or so, it dives into a prolonged and repetitive discussion of COM+ vs CORBA, mislabeled as "Basic Training". Towards the end of the book, the author returns to relevant subjects and makes many excellent observations on the human factors to consider when doing architecture work.
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Title: The Software Architect's Profession: An Introduction by Marc Sewell, Laura Sewell ISBN: 0130607967 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 19 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman ISBN: 0321154959 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 09 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler ISBN: 0321127420 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Applied Software Architecture by Christine Hofmeister, Robert Nord, Dilip Soni ISBN: 0201325713 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Software Architecture: Organizational Principles and Patterns by David M. Dikel, David Kane, James R. Wilson ISBN: 0130290327 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 28 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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