Chapter 6. From Models to Patterns
“Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal.”
Who should be interested in design patterns? Just about everybody who’s interested in the Web 2.0 phenomenon, including:
Business or enterprise analysts
Those responsible for the operation of an enterprise
Systems analysts
Developers and web designers
Entrepreneurs
Architects of applications and commercial software
You
With the approach to patterns in this book, there is room for decision makers and engineers to view the business from different perspectives. Documenting key patterns is a great way to facilitate the requirements-gathering process when embarking on any project. The architectural patterns metamodel outlined in this chapter should help guide you in the definition of the logical boundaries of a solution.
Patterns represent knowledge and provide a way to convey what’s really going on in a given system. Documenting the patterns behind web portals (particularly, Web 2.0 design patterns) is therefore a logical step toward understanding what Web 2.0 really is.
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