When the book of Andrea and Dino came out I bought a copy that I read during the Christmas holidays. The book, after the dedication that Andrea do to Depeche Mode, opens talking about Architects and Architectures giving some definitions. The second chapter is on UML.

The good starts from chapter 3 where the basic OOP principle will be presented and where the authors talks about Patterns, di SoC, SRP, Liskov, OCP etc….

The central part of the book is dedicated to the three layers: in the 4Th they present the Domain Model, the Transaction script and all that the business layer need. In the 5Th they talk about Service Layer, then in the 6th comes the DataLayer and in the 7Th the Presentation Layer.

These 4 chapters are discussed using the patterns and showing a lot of code from the NSK codebase. The authors touch also  some correlated arguments like AJAX, SOA, DAO, MVC, etc…

I really like the book and I think that is a good addendum to the Fowler’s book because filled with real code samples.