Enterprise Architecture Links

Software Architecture Papers

Recommended Books

Architecture Case Studies

Software Product Lines Links

Service-Oriented Architecture Links

Software Reuse Links

Architecture Training

Architecture Training

Architecture Requirements Workshop

Software Architecture Class:

- Las Vegas, March 14-17, 2006
- Reading/London, UK, June 6-9, 2006
- Chicago, IL, September 19-22, 2006

Enterprise Architecture Workshop

- Las Vegas, March 21-24, 2006 (Vegas class is full)
- Reading/London, UK, June 6-9, 2006
- Chicago, IL, Sept 12-15, 2006

Role of the Architect Workshop

- Indianapolis, IN, March 28-30, 2006

Enterprise Architecture Seminar (1-day)

Architecture Overview Seminar

Software Architecture and UML Class

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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/sw_architecture.html
• SoftwareArchitectures.com http://www.softwarearchitectures.com

Resources for Software Architects

• IEEE 1471 Recommended Practice for Architectural Description http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/std_public/description/se/1471-2000_desc.html
• The Worldwide Institute of Software Architects http://www.wwisa.org/wwisamain/index.htm
• Global Enterprise Architecture Organisation http://www.geao.org
• HP Software Architecture Site http://www.architecture.external.hp.com/
• IBM Developer Works Architecture http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/
• Microsoft Solution Architecture Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/
• SEI's Product Line Practice Site http://www.sei.cmu.edu/plp/framework.html
• 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
• Systems and Software Consortium Architecture http://www.software.org/pub/architecture/default.asp
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) Documentation http://www.uml.org/
• PatternShare Community http://patternshare.org/

Classes and Seminars for Software Architects

Relevant Journals and Issues on Software Architecture

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.booch.com/architecture/index.jsp. Note: you have to register and sign-in before you can access the Handbook pages including the patterns catalog.
• 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

Software Architecture 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

Software Architecture Bibliography

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 Papers

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

• 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

• 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.
  Early Bird Discount available until end January. 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 Software Architecture 2002 Conference will be held in Manchester, UK, on February 27-28, 2002. This conference is run by Eric Leach marketing. The slides from last years conference are available at www.ericleach.com/sa2001/sa2slides.html
• DCI and Meta Group are holding the next Enterprise Architectures Conference in New Orleans, LA on March 5-7, 2002. This event is dedicated to Enterprise Architecture. It includes full-day pre- and post- conference workshops, general sessions with informative and thought-provoking keynote presentations, numerous technical and case study breakout sessions and several networking and vendor activities.  Register now with your priority code (CWMTL23 ) and save $200 off the regular 3-, 4- or 5-day conference price.  For more information visit http://www.EAConference.com.
• Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2002, 10-12 June 2002, London. This conference is run by an IT training company called IRM UK. For information on last years event please visit http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2001

Past Software Architecture and Related Conferences and Workshops

• 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.

• 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

Related Topics

• 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

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

UML

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

• IBM Patterns for E-Business http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks/patterns/   <1/7/02>
• 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/

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    <6/16/00>

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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