Design Patterns in Communications Software (SIGS Reference Library, Series Number 19)

By Linda Rising

Book Overview

This definitive compendium of design patterns in communication software, gathered together by Linda Rising, includes contributions by James O. Coplien, Douglas C. Schmidt, Robert Hanmer, Greg Utas,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521790409
• ISBN13: 9780521790406
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Long overdue - excellent resource

This book is divided into small- and large-collections of design patterns, and experience reports, all of which comprise an important body of work supporting one of the most demanding development environments. The patterns that I found most valuable, as well as most applicable to any communications-based architecture are: fault-tolerant telecommunications system patterns (the frameworks that can be mined from the patterns can be tailored to just about any kind of system), and call processing patterns (again, these are applicable to systems outside of the telecommunications domain because they distill complex interrelationships, events and processing requirements into coherent patterns that can be employed in systems that are equal in scope and complexity), and patterns for logging diagnostic messages. In addition, the experience reports in Part III are incredibly valuable to any developer or development organization because they give insight into some of the most challenging problem/solution sets and lessons learned that you're likely to encounter. My favorites are: managing change with patterns, OpenWebserver, and applying design patterns to flexible configure network services in distributed systems. Given the movement towards M-Commerce, extending the enterprise applications suites to PDAs and web-enabled phones, the design patterns will have direct- and indirect-applicability to organizations developing for these environments. Of course, in the telecommunications industry these patterns are directly applicable across the board. This is an important work that provides the collective knowledge and experience of some of the telecommunication industry's best and brightest. For the intended audience and the secondary audiences that I cited this book is one of the most valuable resources a development organization can acquire.