Essential Software Architecture

Ian Gorton is a Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Lab in Washington State, USA. He leads multiple projects that create advanced tools and reusable architectures for use in scientific and data analysis applications. Prior to this, he was a  member of the Empirical Software Engineering group at National ICT Australia (NICTA), based in Sydney, Australia. In over 20 years of experience, Ian has worked in both academia and industry, and held various senior positions, including Chief Architect, in Government research labs in Australia and the USA. He has also consulted to major organizations including Fujitsu, Borland, the Australian Stock Exchange, IBM and the Australian Tax office, and served as Program Chair for both WICSA and COMPARCH, the two leading international conferences in Software Architecture."I'm basically a software {architect, researcher, engineer}. I work on a whole range of projects, including new middleware technology R&D, designing architectures for enterprise applications, and carrying out software architecture research. I guess I must enjoy the variety!"

From the reviews of the second edition: Choice - Oustanding Academic Title in 2012 "The volume is organized in three main parts, the first of which provides a comprehensive but clear definition of software architecture. The second and third parts are devoted to current and emerging practices, respectively. ... This book will be of great help to students of computer science or software engineering, but above all it will provide practitioners with a guide to architecture that they can adopt to help direct their careers and professional development. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (L. Benedicenti, Choice, Vol. 49 (5), January, 2012) "A subset of the software system architecture discipline is discussed in this book. ... Gorton begins with an overall description of what he calls 'the subdiscipline known as software architecture.' ... useful in the technical library of a large financial institution for those engaged in major systems development and evolution." (Mordechai Ben-Menachem, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2012)

• Understanding Software Architecture.- Introducing the Case Study.- Software Quality Attributes.- An Introduction to Middleware Architectures and Technologies.- Service-Oriented Architectures and Technologies.- Advanced Middleware Technologies.- A Software Architecture Process.- Documenting a Software Architecture.- Case Study Design.- Middleware Case Study: MeDICi.- Looking Forward.- The Semantic Web.- Aspect Oriented Architectures.- Model-Driven Architecture.- Software Product Lines.-