As an OO practitioner and methodologist for the last 10 years, I found the Herzum / Sims book to be right on the money in several regards. OO has a lot of theoretical ideas which just don't seem to pan out in practice. The Business Component Factory cleary explains why, and shows what really works in the true industrial setting. It is rich in practical advise, and low in BS. Very refreshing for the software practitioner...
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This book is the first I have read that really tackles all aspects of what is required for Enterprise Application Development through a CBD approach. By defining the levels of component granularity and a recursively discrete approach to breaking a business problem down into components and their constituents as finer grained components, the true requirements for CBD are evident and determined. Many books I have read make...
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There are a lot of books out there that discuss component-based development, but this is the first book I've read that details a complete methodology for making CBD work in the real world.Many of the principles discussed in the book are either common-sense best practices, or have been covered by other authors in the past. This book, however, ties together a wide range of process and architectural concepts into a complete...
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What a great book! Now that I am finally done with it...Apart from its length (but I guess that it is impossible to treat all these subjects appropriately in a shorter book), this is my favorite book in a long time. It addresses a lot of the issues that we have had to resolve in large-scale distributed system development, and provides a great conceptual framework for placing the solutions to these issues. In an era of hype...
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Components have become a hot topic for a couple of years now, but until recently there has been no really good book to recommend to people who want to learn more about the topic. ... This deficiency has now been handsomely overcome with the publication of Peter Herzum and Oliver Sims new book.I recommend this book without any qualification: This is THE book to read to understand components and the impact of components...
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