Title: An indispensible guide for Architects and Developers
Review: This book brings together the collected wisdom of the J2EE and .NET communities in a single volume that shows how you design and build "real-world" enterprise systems. The patterns themselves are classics -- for instance it's great to finally see all of the basic patterns of object-relational mapping in print -- but what really ties this book together is the connecting text that links the patterns together into a cohesive whole. Martin has successfully shown how to use patterns to link together all of the parts of an enterprise system -- drawing from the work of John Crupi et. al. in "Core J2EE Patterns" but going far beyond the scope of that book. I think this book will have the biggest impact on the OO community since "Design Patterns" and just may make patterns "cool" again!
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