架构之美（影印版）

　　FOREWORD
　　by Stephen J. Me//or
　　PREFACE
　　Part One  ON ARCHITECTURE
　　1  WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE?
　　by John Klein and Dauid Weiss
　　Introduction
　　Creating a Software Architecture
　　Architectural Structures
　　Good Architectures
　　Beautiful Architectures
　　Acknowledgments
　　References
　　2  A TALE OF TWO SYSTEMS: A MODERN-DAY SOFTWARE FABLE
　　by Pete Goodliffe
　　The Messy Metropolis
　　Design Town
　　So What?
　　Your Turn
　　References
　　Part Two  ENTERPRISE APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE
　　3  ARCHITECTING FOR SCALE
　　by Jim Waldo
　　Introduction
　　Context
　　The Architecture
　　Thoughts on the Architecture
　　4  MAKING MEMORIES
　　by Michael Nygard
　　Capabilities and Constraints
　　Workflow
　　Architecture Facets
　　User Response
　　5  RESOURCE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES: BEING "IN THE WEB"
　　by Brian Sletten
　　Introduction
　　Conventional Web Services
　　The Web
　　Resource-Oriented Architectures
　　Data-Driven Applications
　　Applied Resource-Oriented Architecture
　　Conclusion
　　6  DATA GROWS UP: THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM
　　by Daue Fetterman
　　Introduction
　　Creating a Social Web Service
　　Creating a Social Data Query Service
　　Creating a Social Web Portal: FBML
　　Supporting Functionality for the System
　　Summation
　　Part Three  SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
　　7  XEN AND THE BEAUTY OF VIRTUALIZATION
　　by Derek Murray and Keir Fraser
　　Introduction
　　Xenoservers
　　The Challenges of Virtualization
　　Paravirtualization
　　The Changing Shape of Xen
　　Changing Hardware, Changing Xen
　　Lessons Learned
　　Further Reading
　　8  GUARDIAN: A FAULT-TOLERANT OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT
　　by GreR Lehey
　　Tandem/16: Some Day All Computers Will Be Built Like This
　　Hardware
　　Mechanical Layout
　　Processor Architecture
　　The Interprocessor Bus
　　Input/Output
　　Process Structure
　　Message System
　　File System
　　Folklore
　　The Downside
　　Posterity
　　Further Reading
　　9  JPC: AN X86 PC EMULATOR IN PURE JAVA
　　by Rhys Nemman and Christopher Dennis
　　Introduction
　　Proof of Concept
　　The PC Architecture
　　Java Performance Tips
　　Four in Four: It Just Won't Go
　　The Perils of Protected Mode
　　Fighting A Losing Battle
　　Hijacking the JVM
　　Ultimate Flexibility
　　Ultimate Security
　　It Feels Better the Second Time Around
　　10  THE STRENGTH OF METACIRCULAR VIRTUAL MACHINES:JIKES RVM
　　by/an Rogers and Daue Groue
　　Background
　　Myths Surrounding Runtime Environments
　　A Brief History ofJikes RVM
　　Bootstrapping a Self-Hosting Runtime
　　Runtime Components
　　Lessons Learned
　　References
　　Part Four  END-USER APPLICATION ARCHITECTURES
　　11  GNU EMACS: CREEPING FEATURISM IS A STRENGTH
　　by Jim Blandy
　　Emacs in Use
　　Emacs's Architecture
　　Creeping Featurism
　　Two Other Architectures
　　12  WHEN THE BAZAAR SETS OUT TO BUILD CATHEDRALS
　　by Till Adam and Mirko Boehm
　　Introduction
　　History and Structure of the KDE Project
　　Akonadi
　　ThreadWeaver
　　Part Five  LANGUAGES AND ARCHITECTURE
　　13   SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE: OBJECT-ORIENTED VERSUS FUNCTIONAL
　　by Bertrand Meyer
　　Overview
　　The Functional Examples
　　Assessing the Modularity of Functional Solutions
　　An Object-Oriented View
　　Assessing and Improving OO Modularity
　　Agents: Wrapping Operations into Objects
　　Acknowledgments
　　References
　　14   REREADING THE CLASSICS
　　by Panagiotis Louriclas
　　Everything Is an Object
　　Types Are Defined Implicitly
　　Problems
　　Brick and Mortar Architecture
　　References
　　AFTERWORD
　　by William J. Mitchell
　　CONTRIBUTORS
　　INDEX

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　　《架构之美（影印版）》作者完成了一项非常美妙的工程。这本书不仅涵盖了软件架构中的一些基本原理和最佳实践，它同时还涉及了广泛的当代系统。这些系统触及了不同的架构，从Enlacs到Facebook，从高度和谐的系统到更轻巧的系统。简而言之，这本书为软件架构的艺术性、科学性和实践性提供了非常及时和有益的贡献。