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Architecture Case Studies and Architecture Project Artifacts

Top Software Architecture Sites

Gaudi Project Architecture Site http://www.gaudisite.nl

Resources for Software Architects http://www.bredemeyer.com (we are told this belongs on the list)

SEI's Software Architecture site http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/

Resources for Software Architects

The Association for Open Group Enterprise Architects AOGEA (and GEAO) http://www.aogea.org

HP Software Architecture Site http://www.architecture.external.hp.com/

IBM Developer Works Architecture http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/

IEEE 1471 Recommended Practice for Architectural Description http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/std_public/description/se/1471-2000_desc.html

InfoQ Architecture area http://www.infoq.com/architecture

International Enterprise Architecture Center Knowledge Library http://www.ieac.org/Knowledge_Library/index.htm

International Association of Software Architects http://www.iasahome.org/iasaweb/appmanager/home/home

PatternShare Community http://patternshare.org/

Microsoft Solution Architecture Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/

Microsoft ARCasts http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=34&TagID=45

Microsoft's Application Architecture Guide http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide

SEI's Product Line Practice Site http://www.sei.cmu.edu/plp/framework.html

SoftwareArchitectures.com http://www.softwarearchitectures.com

Systems and Software Consortium Architecture http://www.software.org/pub/architecture/default.asp

Unified Modeling Language (UML) Documentation http://www.uml.org/

The Worldwide Institute of Software Architects http://www.wwisa.org/wwisamain/index.htm

Regional Architecture Forums

Canadian Strategic Architect Forum http://portal.csaf07.com/default.aspx

MSDN Canada Centre for Architecture http://msdn.microsoft.com/canada/architecture/

Software Architecture Definitions

How do you define Software Architecture? http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/definitions.html
Architecture Definitions http://www.bredemeyer.com/definiti.htm

What is Software Architecture Anyway? http://www2.umassd.edu/CoursePages/SoftwareArchitecture/lecture/saarch.html

Wikipedia definition of Software Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture

Classes and Seminars for Software Architects

Architecture, Architecting, Architect Training from Bredemeyer Consulting http://www.bredemeyer.com/training.htm
USC Course on CSCI 578 Software Architecture http://sunset.usc.edu/classes/cs578_2006/ and research program http://sunset.usc.edu/research/software_architecture/
University of Waterloo Software Architecture Course (CS746D ) Slides http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rnkazman/746.html
Architectures for Software Systems course offered in CMU's Masters in Software Engineering Program (See tutorial based on earlier CMU course on Software Architecture, by Mary Shaw and David Garlan, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/tinker-arch/www/html/Tutorial_Slides/Soft_Arch/quick_index.html)

Architecture Essays, Discussion Boards, Blogs and Blog Entries

Ruth Malan's trace in the sand, architecture journal and Trace in the Sand blog
Bill Branson has a blog on modeling: Whiteboards that Work
David Ing's August 5, 2005 blog entry On Being a Software Architect and David's blog
Thanigai's "Viewpoint of an Architect: Managing Quality of Service" blog, and "Architecture has to stand the test of time" blog post on May 10, 2006.
IBM developerWorks Architect blog:
- Grady Booch Software architecture, software engineering, and Renaissance jazz
- Sanjay Bose SOA, ESB, and beyond
- Chris Ferris Web services, distributed computing, and interoperability
- Kerrie Holley SOA
- Carol Jones Social Networking
- Simon Johnston Service-Oriented Architecture and business-level tooling
- Rich Schwerdtfeger Accessibility strategy and architecture
Microsoft MSDN Architecture Blogs
Christopher Koch's (CIO Magazine) IT Strategy blog frequently deals with architecture-relevant topics
Scott Dunn's post titled "Technical Architect"
Brian Sondergaard's Software Architecture blog
Simon Brown's Coding the Architecture blog
TheServerSide discussion thread on the role of the architect http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=33809#169742
More blogs on software and enterprise architecture, and related topics:

- Architect's Linkblog

Relevant Journals and Issues on Software Architecture

The Architecture Journal http://www.architecturejournal.net
IBM Systems Journal special issue on Enterprise Solutions Structure (with architecture as a focus) http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj38-1.html
Essays on Software Architecture http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/essays.html

Architecture Patterns and Styles

Grady Booch's Patterns Repository points to a number of architectural patterns. It is maintained on Booch's Software Architecture Handbook site, http://www.handbookofsoftwarearchitecture.com/index.jsp?page=Main. Note: you have to register and sign-in before you can access the Handbook pages including the patterns catalog.
Data and Object Factory, Design patterns: http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx
Process Pipelines in Object-Oriented Architectures Style: http://www.ppooa.com.es/
Microsoft's Enterprise Architecture, Patterns and Practices: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/entarch.asp
Books on Architecture Patterns and Styles
Martin Fowler's GUI Architecture patterns: http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html

Software Architecture Decision Frameworks

Bredemeyer Consulting's Architecture Decision Model and Visual Architecting Process.
"Architectural Blueprints: The 4+1" View Model of Software Architecture", IEEE Software 12, November 1995, http://www.win.tue.nl/~mchaudro/sa2004/Kruchten4+1.pdf

Enterprise Architecture Links

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Links

Architecture Case Studies

Software Product Lines Links

Software Architecture Bibliography

Recommended Books

IT Architecture Sites

Enterprise Architecture Links http://www.bredemeyer.com/EnterpriseArchitecture/EAlinks.htm

Department of Commerce IT Enterprise Architecture Home Page http://www.hpcc.noaa.gov/docita/

Department of Veteran's Affairs IT Architecture Program site http://www.va.gov/oirm/architecture/default.asp

Enterprise-wide IT Architecture site http://www.ewita.com
North Carolina’s Technical Architecture http://irm.state.nc.us/techarch/archfrm.htm
Ohio’s EA web site: http://www.state.oh.us/das/dcs/opp/ea/
Kentucky’s EA site: http://www.state.ky.us/kirm/arcstand.htm

Software Architecture Case Studies and Reports

Architecture Case Studies and Artifacts http://www.bredemeyer.com/ArchitectZone/PublicDomainArchitectures/PublicArchitectureIndex.htm
Anderson Consulting's Eagle Architecture http://www.ac.com/services/eagle/eagl_thought3.html (outdated)
Common Clinical Context Architecture (No longer available at http://www.mcis.duke.edu/standards/CCOW/Documentation.htm.) You can purchase the document from the HL7 Bookstore at http://www.hl7.org/ -- look for the CCOW specification.
IBM's San Fransisco Framework Architecture http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/sanfrancisco/library.html
North Carolina State Technical Architecture http://www.state.nc.us/IRM/techarch/archfrm.htm
Model Problems in Software Architecture http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/ModProb/

Software Architecture Papers

Software Architecture Tools

NDepend shows dependencies and more (for .NET code)

Lattix LDM (Lattix Dependency Model) lets you see dependencies in your code, and shows modules that break dependency design rules (like can/cannot use rules related to layers)

Structure101 from HeadwaySoftware, complexity/structure analysis tool

Sparx Enterprise Architect UML design tool

Poseidon modeling-to-code-generation tool

Select Architect, BPM, UML and Data Modeling Tool, from Select Business Solutions

MagicDraw and Umodel from Altova

Visio stencils for UML 2.0: http://www.softwarestencils.com/uml/index.html (by Pavel Hruby)

Software Architecture--Insightful Humor

"Big Ball of Mud" by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder http://www.laputan.org/mud/. Written with humor, but astringently insightful.

"Lesson Learned (unstructured and eclectic)" by Clayton Sprung http://www3.telus.net/clayton_sprung/archlessons.htm

"If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers" by Scott Manning http://www.scottmanning.com/archives/00000015.php

General Software--Insight and Humor

Software Engineering Proverbs, collected by Tom Van Vleck

"Why I hate Frameworks," by Benji Smith on the "Joel on Software" discussion group, http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12. Thanks to Philippe Kruchten via Grady Booch's Blog for pointing this out!

And not to be missed: Waterfall 2006! Thanks to Grady Booch's Blog for pointing this out! http://www.waterfall2006.com/

Software Architecture Research Projects

ADAPT http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~heineman/ADAPT

CU Boulder SERL http://www.cs.colorado.edu/serl/

DSSA ADAGE http://www.owego.com

GT-SARG http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/classes/cs8112m/

Software Systems Generator Research Group http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/schwartz/#tr-95-06

STARS Software Architecture Papers http://source.asset.com/stars/darpa/Papers/ArchPapers.html

USC Center for Software Engineering (CSE) Software Architecture Research Group http://sunset.usc.edu/research/software_architecture/index.html

Research Sites Relevant to Software Architecture

IBM's Subject-Oriented Programming http://www.research.ibm.com/sop/
Xerox Parc Aspect-Oriented Programming http://aosd.net

Software Architecture Researchers Personal Pages

Grady Booch http://www.booch.com/architecture/index.jsp
Gert Florijn http://www.serc.nl/people/florijn/interests/arch.html
David Garlan http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garlan/
Rick Kazman http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/rkazman/
Rick Kazman's papers on the Waterloo site http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rnkazman/SE-papers.html
Ruth Malan http://www.ruthmalan.com
Dewayne E. Perry http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~perry
Mary Shaw http://spoke.compose.cs.cmu.edu/shaweb/

Upcoming Software Architecture and Related Conferences and Workshops

Integrated EA Conference, London, UK, 24-25 Feb 2009
SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference, Spring 2009

Waterfall 2006, the absolute must conference of the decade! Way to go, Mike Cohn�awesome idea! We're submitting "Cascades: how to make waterfalls agile." YUP, you need architecture for that! Be sure to check out Todd Little's presentation on "The Economics of Certification"!

Past Software Architecture and Related Conferences and Workshops

Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) 2008: The Conference for Software Architects by Software Architects; 18 - 21 February 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.wicsa.net

QCon London Architect track: March 12-14, 2008. http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/

DR. DOBB S ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN WORLD 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSING SOON! Submissions will be accepted through February 5, 2007. Please use the following link to submit your proposal(s): https://www.cmpevents.com/SDUM7/a.asp?option=N&V=3
Conference Details: July 24-27, 2007, Hyatt McCormick Place, Chicago, IL

Software Development (SD) Conference and Expo Best Practices 2006, 11-14 September 2006, Boston, Massechusetts USA. One of the tracks is "Design and architecture."

Early Aspects at ICSE: Workshop in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design, May 21, 2006, at the 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, China: Early aspects work focuses on the impact of crosscutting concerns at the early phases of the software development.

4th International Workshop on System/Software Architectures (IWSSA'05), co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP), 27-30 June 2005, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

The Second European Conference on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications, 10-14 July 2006, Bilbao, Spain.

The Open Group's IT Architecture Practitioners Conference, July 17-19, 2006, Miami, Florida, USA.

Architecture & Design World 2006, July 17-20, 2006, Hyatt McCormick Place, Chicago, IL: For over 19 years, it's been the mission of the Software Development Conference to deliver reliable and practical developer training to thousands of developers and managers. Returning in July 2006, SD Events presents Architecture & Design World 2006.

SPA2006 conference, 26-29 March, UK. SPA2006 is run by the British Computer Society's Software Practice Advancement group. SPA explores a broad range of subjects from lead- edge technology, through pioneering software development and deployment practices, to innovative techniques for managing projects and the people that make up the project team.
Find out more at www.spaconference.org

WICSA 5. The 5th IEEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on November 6-9, 2005.
- WICSA Call for participation: See http://sunset.usc.edu/~softarch/wicsa5/conference_program.html

The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2001) will be held in Amsterdam, August 2001. http://www.cs.vu.nl/WICSA2001/ <5/18/01>

The Software Architecture 2001 Conference was held in London, UK. The slides from this conference are available at www.ericleach.com/sa2001/sa2slides.html

OOPSLA 2000 will be held in Minneapolis on October 18th, 2000. See details of our Tutorial. We encourage you to participate in the Action Guides for the Software Architect Workshop on October 16. Submission deadline: September 1. <6/29/00>
The Enterprise Architectures Conference 1999 was held in Orlando, on December 7-9, 1999. The Enterprise Architectures Conference titled "Bridging the Gap:Creating Architecture Value in the eBusiness Millennium" was held in San Diego, March 20-22. The EA Conference in June, 2000 was held in Chicago.

Coordination 99 - Third Int. Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - April, 26-28 1999 http://www.cs.unibo.it/~coord99/

ICSE99 - The 21st International Conference on Software Engineering, Preparing for the Software Century - Software Engineering Challenges for the Global Electronic Community, 16-22 May 1999, Los Angeles CA USA -- NEW: Architectural Case Studies http://sunset.usc.edu/icse99/

First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, 22-24 February 1999, San Antonio, TX http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/prof/wicsa1/index.html

Second International Software Architecture Workshop (ISAW-2), October 14 and 15 1996, San Francisco, California, USA http://www.cs.colorado.edu/users/isaw2/

The Software Architectures and Component Technology Symposium will be held at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands on 20 and 21 January 2000.

Proceedings of Past Architecture Conferences/Workshops

WICSA 2005 Proceedings. The 5th IEEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture, http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/wicsa/2005/2548/00/2548toc.xml

Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures, January 1998 Workshop Report http://www.objs.com/workshops/ws9801/report.html

Software Architecture Link Sites

ArchitecturePlus's IT Architecture Links http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mke/archplus/others.htm

Cetus Archtiecture Links http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_design.html

IEEE Architecture Reading Room Links http://www.pithecanthropus.com/~awg/browsing_library.html

Links2Go http://www2.links2go.com/topic/Software_Architecture

Pressman's Architectural Design Links http://www.rspa.com/reflib/ArchitecturalDesign.html

Processwave's Architecture Links http://processwave.net/Articles/architecture_articles.htm

Discourse on the Role of the Architect and Architect Skills

Ruth Malan's essays on the Architect Role

Links to blogs, essays, and websites dealing with architect skills and related topics

Allan Hoffman, Career Spotlight: Software Architect, published at www.monster.com, July 2006.

Scott Dunn's post titled "Technical Architect" on his Software Development and Human Capital blog, September 24, 2004.
Luke Hohman's post titled "The Role of the Software Architect" on his blog dated March 27, 2006.
Michael Platt's blog post titled Architecture and Architects dated September 29, 2005.
WWISA discussion of the History of Architecture in the Building and Software fields.
Laura and Marc Sewell's "The Profession of Software Architecture" published in Software Tech News.
Robert Bogue, "Anatomy of a Software Development Role: Solution Architect," published on developer.com. See also "Anatomy of a Software Development Role: Development Lead," by Robert Bogue.
Bill Venner's "Becoming An Architect," artima Developer, April 5, 2004.
Rich Newcomb's "Architecture of the Enterprise," Intelligent Enterprise, March 8, 2002.
Discussion of the duties of the (chief) software architect on the SEI architecture site.
Bredemeyer Architect Competency Framework and Competency Elaborations: Leadership, Strategy, Organizational Politics and Technology
TOGAF Architecture Skills Framework.
Jeff Lash, "Soft Skills for Information Architecture," Digital Magazine, September 24, 2003.

Architecture Principles

System Qualities and Architecture

Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, "Defining Non-Functional Requirements," August 2001.
Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, "Architectural Requirements," February 2002.
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, What is Software Architecture (2):Quality Attributes, posted on his IF YOU BUILD IT ... Will they Come? blog on Dr.Dobbs Portal on July 31, 2006
Allen Stoker, An Architect's Perspective on Application Quality, Part I, July 2006, and
Allen Stoker and Joe Ottinger, An Architect's Perspective on Application Quality, Part II, August 2006
posted on TheServerSide.com

Availability and Scalability

Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) on InfoQ

eBay's Architecture Strategies, Patterns and Forces, Randy Shoup on InfoQ; here are the slides

Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay. eBay Distinguished Architect, Randy Shoup, explains eBay's key scalability practices of partitioning, horizontal scale, avoiding XA, asynchronicity, and virtualization.

Randy Shoup discusses eBay architecture at QCon San Fancisco, 2007 (video on InfoQ)

Scalability Principles: "At the simplest level, scalability is about doing more of something. This could be responding to more user requests, executing more work or handling more data." Simon Brown's InfoQ post presents some principles and guidelines for building scalable software systems.

Spectacular Scalability with Smart Service Contracts, by Udi Dahan

Dan Pritchett on Architecture at eBay, on InfoQ

The Challenges of Latency, by Dan Pritchett and Architecture Quality: Operational Manageability, by Dan Pritchett Sep 13, 2007 (video on InfoQ)

Scalable Internet Architectures, by Theo Schlossnagle, 2006

Related Topics

Component Design and Specification

On-line, prepublication version of John Cheesman and John Daniels new book titled UML Components http://www.syntropy.co.uk/umlcomponents/

Papers from the 2000 International Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cbs/cbse2000/papers/index.html

Papers from the 1999 International Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cbs/icse99/papers/

Papers from the 1998 International Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cbs/icse98/papers/index.html

Jun Han's papers on architecture and components http://www.pscit.monash.edu.au/~jhan/jhanPub.html

Component Based Software Engineering Course - State of the Art report, Ivica Crnkovic et al., M�lardalen University, http://www.idt.mdh.se/kurser/phd/CBSE/ <6/28/00>

Systems and Systems Thinking

Systems and Systems Theory, Outback Software, http://www.outbacksoftware.com/systems/systems.html

Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches http://acasa.upenn.edu/

Security

Papers on security considerations in J2EE and .NET systems written from an architectural perspective by Gunnar Peterson, http://www.arctecgroup.net/articles.htm

"Ten Aspects of Security to Improve Application Strength," by Chad Cook, March 6, 2006. http://www.developer.com/design/print.php/3589331

Performance Analysis Tools

Confio Case Study: Wait-Time Methodology, on TheServerSide.com, August 2006

Databases

Object Databases: http://www.odbmsfacts.com
Object-Relational Mapping: http://www.object-relational.com
XML Data Servers: http://www.xml-data-servers.com
General database consulting: http://www.barryandassociates.com

Software Engineering

Tom Gilb, author of the books Principles of Software Engineering Management (1989) and Software Inspection (1993), as well as draft books on Requirements Management and Evolutionary Project Management http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KaiGilb/

Luke Hohmann, author of Journey of a Software Professional http://hometown.aol.com/lhohmann/index.htm

Andy Pols' Use Case Zone http://www.pols.co.uk/usecasezone/

UML

UML Reference Cards (Allen I. Holub) http://www.holub.com/goodies/uml/index.html
Unified Modeling Language (UML) Documentation http://www.uml.org/

UML Tools

Links to Open-Source UML modeling tools: http://java-source.net/open-source/uml-modeling

Links to UML modeling tools that include commercial tools:

http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byCompany.html

XML

O'Reilly's XML.com http://www.xml.com/

Patterns

IBM Patterns for E-Business http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks/patterns/
Patterns Home Page http://hillside.net

PatternShare Community http://patternshare.org/

Portland Patterns Repository http://c2.com/ppr/index.html

Doug Schmidt’s Homepage http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/

Rob Daigneau's Design Patterns for .Net http://www.designpatternsfor.net/Default.aspx?tid=0

Software Engineering Link Sites

Cetus Links http://www.cetus-links.org/
Software-Engineer.org Software engineering community site http://www.software-engineer.org/index.php
Linkable Links http://johnaho.com/links.htm

On-line White Paper "Libaries"

BNet http://industries.bnet.com
Silicon.com http://whitepapers.silicon.com/
ZDNetUK http://whitepapers.zdnet.co.uk
ZiffDavis Web Buyers Guide http://www.ziffdavis.com/products/online/webbuyersguide

Standards Organizations

Object Management Group http://www.omg.org
Object Data Management Group http://www.odmg.org
World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org

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