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Single-Tier and Multi-Tier Patterns Overview

Author: Paul King
Last Revised: February 2005

Synopsis

These slides present an overview of Single-Tier and Multi-Tier Design Patterns for building object-oriented and enterprise applications.

Some of the topics cover include:

Patterns concepts What are patterns, how are they used and why are they useful?
Single-Tier patterns landscape What patterns are useful when I am building a single class or a small collection of classes. What are some of the available single-tier patterns. (These are typically applicable to object-oriented languages such as Java, C# and VB.Net.)
Single-Tier patterns example: Factory Method Why are factory patterns useful? When should they be used?
Single-Tier patterns example: Mediator What is the mediator pattern? When is it useful?
Multi-Tier patterns landscape What are multi-tier patterns? Why kind of patterns are available?
Multi-Tier patterns examples Example presentation-tier, business-tier and data-tier patterns

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About the Author

Dr Paul King is Managing Director and Principal Consultant for ASERT. His career spans technical and managerial roles in various organisations underpinned by deep knowledge of the information technology & telecommunications markets and a passion for the creation of innovative organisations. Throughout his career, Dr King has provided technical and strategic business consulting to hundreds of organizations throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. He is an expert, practitioner and trainer in J2EE, XML and Web Services technologies. He has numerous publications in National and International conferences, journals and trade magazines. He has been awarded prizes for his research, publications and presentations and is a frequent invited guest speaker at International Conferences. He has also contributed to numerous international standards. If you wish to contact the author, send an email to paulk at asert dot com dot au.

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