Designing the Requirements: Building Applications that the User Wants and Needs

Preface

This book is the fruit of about 15 years of thinking about IT application development. It started when I was working on IT architecture in the late 1990s. At that time I wrote a book called IT Architecture and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Scalable Systems (a second edition coauthored with Peter Bye in 2004 is still available). This was about the technology for building integrated applications and about how to make the applications scalable, highly available, and secure. Other people were thinking along similar lines at the time, and the kinds of solutions Peter and I were proposing came to be called Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) because the basic idea was to have reusable services with which you can rapidly assemble ...