Questions tagged [architectural-patterns]
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How to avoid duplicating the domain model in a multi-language distributed application?
My team is currently working on a web platform and we are planning to divide the application in a set of independent services written in different languages, the problem is that these services rely on ...
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Basic OOP Question for a Report
I'm in development of a sample project in Android for a friend's phone that keeps track of his sales. At first, one of the requirements was to create yearly reports of this sales data. This would be ...
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"Property Container" design-pattern in-depth definition
Could anybody, please, explain what is a Property Container or at least where can I get information about that pattern on the Internet?
I've found that it exists as one of the Fundamental patterns in ...
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How is MVC different from Layered
Based on this book , refering to pages 156 to 159 , it talks about the two different types of software architecture model : MVC & Layered .
There are distributed system architecture patterns such ...
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Validation and Authorisation in Domain Models and Carrying that through a Service Layer to MVC
With the current project I'm working on there's an architecture question being asked which feels like it might just be asking too much.
System Basics:
HTML/JS MVVM
Asp.net MVC
Web Services
EF
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Data Access Layer for application
I am working on a retail application where currently I'm using raw SQL like
insert into some_table values (Textbox1.Text, Textbox2.Text, ...)
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update some_table set some_column = value
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DDD: Domain Model Factory Design
I am trying to understand how and where to implement domain model factories. I have included my Company aggregate as a demo of how I have done it.
I have included my design decisions at the end - I ...
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Providing an agnostic authorization system
I'm trying to design a small web platform that would host several "applications", with a common user pool. My reflection is now focused on the authorization system.
I define an application as an ...
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SPA thin or thick architecture [duplicate]
I seek your advice on SPA (Single-page application) architecture.
I'm building an SPA which edits a model. The models consists of objects which have a relation to one another. The objects (and ...
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Layer style applied, but intuition is different
Currently, I'm developing an architecture for a system of the following kind:
There are a couple of existing applications (front end) with which one can define UML profiles capturing some specific ...
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Naming a sending/receiving module. Does the pattern have a name? [closed]
I'm working on a simple piece of functionality (actually a ruby gem, but that is beside the point) which can be used to
receive and persist incoming messages
send and persist outgoing messages
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Is the Entity Component System architecture object oriented by definition?
Is the Entity Component System architecture object oriented, by definition? It seems more procedural or functional to me. My opinion is that it doesn't prevent you from implementing it in an OO ...
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Pattern or solution for using classes with different interface the same way
What I would like to achieve is to use classes (now two, later more) with different interface the same way, so I would like avoid using decisions based on the interface on upper levels for instance, I ...
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What is a first class connector?
I was reading Towards Architecture-based Self-Healing Systems, and came upon the term
first-class connectors. What are they?
Searching some more finds this paper Systematic Construction of Software ...
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Is Haskell function composition an instance of pipe & filter architectural pattern
The pipe & filter architectural pattern is defined as a chain of processing elements, arranged so that the output of each element is the input of the next. Every example seems to consider inter-...
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Designing a robust architecture for multiple export types?
I'm looking for patterns or architectural guidance for an upcoming feature I'm designing. Basically, it's an export feature with multiple export targets, and I'm looking to find a way to make it ...
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Rules of thumb regarding breaking into sub-projects
We are building a Game Client and Server, our system is broken into four major projects: (Client and Server, Shared Interfaces, Source Art). In addition, both client and server have a set of libraries ...
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Acceptable placement of the composition root using dependency injection (DI) and inversion of control (IoC) containers
I've read in several sources including Mark Seemann's 'Ploeh' blog about how the appropriate placement of the composition root of an IoC container is as close as possible to the entry point of an ...
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What is difference between publisher-subscriber and reactor patterns?
Publish-subscribe and Reactor patterns looking very similar to me. How they are different?
In both patterns a message is getting passed to subscribers indirectly (listeners in reactor pattern).
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Dependency Injection - Dependency Chain Pattern
On my last large project, I used dependency injection really heavily. I started out using constructor injection but even two or three dependencies resulted in really ugly code.
public MyClass(
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Application Logic – which of the two definitions is correct?
This is my understanding of the Application Layer:
• It implements Application logic
• this layer contains Application Services, which are used by external consumers to talk to your application
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Software patterns for frameworks [closed]
I am currently doing some research about software patterns and about architectural patterns for frameworks specifically.
Google is not really showing off for this topic, so I am curious which ...
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Microkernel architectural pattern and applicability for business applications
We are in the business of building customizable web applications. We have the core team that provides what we call as the core platform (provides services like security, billing etc.) on top of which ...
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Help identify the pattern for reacting on updates
There's an entity that gets updated from external sources. Update events are at random intervals. And the entity has to be processed once updated. Multiple updates may be multiplexed. In other words ...
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Pattern(s) about hierarchical settings overwriting
Assume that you have a hierarchy of organizational units:
- Company
-- Branches
--- Departments
---- Teams
Lets say I have some settings (for simplicity assume that they have the same properties) ...
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OOP :What are some of the situations in which class based design is better than interface based one?
I was reading JDOM's website.
Why is the JDOM API defined in terms of concrete classes rather than interfaces?
Jason Hunter summarizes the arguments against an interface-based API for JDOM:
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Optimal communication pattern to update subscribers
What is the optimal way to update the subscriber's local model on changes C on a central model M? ( M + C -> M_c)
The update can be done by the following methods:
Publish the updated model M_c to ...
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CQRS and cache invalidation (while load balancing)
I'm slowly trying to migrate our web application to use CQRS principals. In particular, I have separated "write" and "read" interfaces into commands and queries.
I have implemented a "reader" ...
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Learning Asynchronous programming [closed]
Asynchronous non-blocking event driven programming seems to be all the rage. I have a basic conceptual understanding of what this all means. However what I'm not sure is when and where my code can ...
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Static Analysis tools to detect architectural patterns
Currently for school we are working on a research project. The central question of this project is: Which architectural patterns can be detected using static code analysis? With architectural pattern ...
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Architecture of interaction modes ("paint tools") for a 3D paint program
We are developing a Qt-based application to navigate through and paint on a volume treated as a 3D pixel graphic. The layout of the app consists of three orthogonal slice views on which the user may ...
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What are the current problems involved in software engineering programming patterns? [closed]
can someone suggest me the current problems in software engineering and the research links for it?
i have some knowledge on MVVM being a pattern but i would like to know more about others and also ...
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How can I "get in the know"?
My company posted a job listing to get me a helper. A recruiter called me today and all he kept saying was "MVC this Entity Framework that..." - He sounded shocked when I said the project uses ...
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