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OfficeFloor: using office patterns to improve software design

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EuroPLoP '13: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Program

Article No.: 2, Pages 1 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/2739011.2739013

Published: 10 July 2013 Publication History

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OfficeFloor is a middleware framework that bases its design on the patterns occurring within an office. Re-using office patterns within software provides two improvements to software design. The first is improved performance tuning of applications operating within complex enterprise environments. Complex enterprise environments, such as Service-Oriented Architecture, require applications to interact with multiple downstream systems. Any one of these downstream systems may impact the application's performance. The improved performance tuning is a result of the office patterns enabling the use of multiple thread pools to isolate the performance impacts of each of these downstream systems. The second improvement is a middleware framework that enables early and continuous delivery of working code for Agile methodologies. The early and continuous delivery of working code is a result of the office patterns enabling inversion of control for methods. The inversion of control for methods enables building applications bottom-up. This bottom-up approach to building applications reduces the lead times involved with top-down software designs and also reduces the refactoring due to top-down software designs. The reduced lead times and reduced refactoring enables early and continuous delivery of working code for Agile methodologies.

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Berta PVranic V(2019)Synergy of Organizational Patterns and Aspect-Oriented Programming2019 IEEE 15th International Scientific Conference on Informatics10.1109/Informatics47936.2019.9119335(000439-000444)Online publication date: Nov-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/Informatics47936.2019.9119335

Index Terms

OfficeFloor: using office patterns to improve software design
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
      2. Language types
        Object oriented languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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DOI:10.1145/2739011

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Berta PVranic V(2019)Synergy of Organizational Patterns and Aspect-Oriented Programming2019 IEEE 15th International Scientific Conference on Informatics10.1109/Informatics47936.2019.9119335(000439-000444)Online publication date: Nov-2019
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