Architecture Council/Links Collection

A collection of interesting links to articles, blogs and other resources related to software architecture. Please add your name when you add an item, for discussions.

Patterns

• The Dependency Injection Pattern: an alternative to Factories and Service Locators (Blog by Michael Scharf). See also Introduction to the Spring Framework (article by Rod Johnson) for a discussion of IoC and DI.

Concurrency

• Threads considered Harmful Blog (found by David Orme)
• Erlang, Functional Java, Scala and others on E4 Mailing list (David Orme)
• Java Concurrency in Practice contains an excellent treatment of the issues. In a dynamic environment such as OSGi you need to be aware of the rules surrounding things such as visibility, safe publication etc.
• The Problem with Threads by Edward A. Lee Often cited article explaining the problems of threading today.
• Concurrency: Past and Present by Brian Goetz -- A 1h presentation on Concurrency in Java. Brian shows a very simple example and how difficult it is to get concurrency done correctly. If you think threading is easy -- listen to this talk... If you are interested in alternatives and future skip the first 30 min (the 30 min are just showing why threading (using locks) is difficult).
• Real-world Concurrency by Bryan Cantrill and Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems -- an insightful ACM Queue article: we hope to inject some calm reality (if not some hard-won wisdom) into a discussion that has too often descended into hysterics (quote).

Eclipse Concurrency

• Don't have code run in the context of the Java Classloader (bugzilla comment by John Arthorne)

Java Idioms

• Java.net.URL.equals() and hashCode() make blocking internet connections (Blog by Michael Scharf)
• Don't swallow InterruptedException. Call Thread.currentThread().interrupt() instead. (Blog by Michael Scharf)

Design Guidelines

• Law of Demeter (Principle of Least Knowledge)
• Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

Eclipse Tips & Tricks

• Ninja - Eclipse Debugging Tips
• Debug and patch a runtime Eclipse (Blog by Michael Scharf)

Eclipse Foundation

• Eclipse/API Central
• Development Resources
• Board and Members Meeting Minutes

Outside of the Eclipse Ecosystem

• Microsoft's patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Project for .NET
• Stackoverflow.com - Questions and Answers for everything related to programming
• Open Source Community Simplified