The Enterprise Architect's Handbook

This book is written for technical architects and senior administrators tasked with providing hosting and support infrastructures to applications. This book will show you common patterns used in developing enterprise-wide architectures by illustrating these concepts with open source frameworks and toolsets.

This book will address core infrastructure topics such as network topology and organization, security frameworks, backup/recovery frameworks, deployment management, content management, and monitoring practices. Specifics about hosting J2EE applications as well as .Net applications are addressed.

This book will be published in May, 2005.

Derek Ashmore is a consultant and technical architect and routinely provides consulting services for companies designing and developing commercial web applications. Derek has over 15 years experience and is currently focusing on Java, J2EE, and other internet-related technologies.

Derek is widely published with most recent publications including articles in JavaPro and the Java Developers Journal. Derek can be reached at dashmore@dvt.com.

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