Software Fortresses: Modeling Enterprise Architectures

This book introduces a new approach for modeling large enterprise systems: the software fortress model. In the software fortress model, an enterprise architecture is viewed as a series of self-contained, mutually suspicious, marginally cooperating software fortresses interacting with each other through carefully crafted and meticulously managed treaty relationships. The software fortress model is an intuitive, simple, expressive approach that maps readily to existing technologies such as .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This book is designed to meet an immediate need to define, clarify, and explain the basics of this new modeling methodology for large enterprise software architectures.

Table of Contents

Preface.
The Software Fortress Model.
Who Cares about Software Fortresses?
The Goals of This Book.
Who Should Read This Book.
The History of the Software Fortress Model.
The Organization of This Book.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
1. Introduction.
2. Diagramming Software Fortresses.
3. Transactions.
4. Drawbridges.
5. Synchronous Drawbridges.
6. Asynchronous Drawbridges.
7. Guards and Walls.
8. Treaties.
9. General Fortress Issues.
10. Internet Fortresses.
11. Business Application Fortresses.
12. Legacy, Service, and Treaty Management Fortresses.
13. Software Fortress Design Review.
14. Case Study.
15. Postlude.
Glossary.