Posts Tagged ‘Application Design’

Rethinking architecture with CQRS

December 21st, 2009 by Allard Buijze
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/12/21/rethinking-architecture-with-cqrs/)

question_and_answer Many applications use some form of persistent storage to store its state. However, important information about this state is lost: why is the state as it currently is. Furthermore, a single model is used to store information that is retrieved for many different purposes, often resulting in extremely complex and bog-slow SQL queries.

Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural style that makes a clear distinction between commands that change the application state and queries that expose the application state.

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Battling complexity in large web applications

October 20th, 2009 by Allard Buijze
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/10/20/battling-complexity-in-large-web-applications/)

space-shuttle-endeavour-launch-2 Nowadays, companies are hardly ever satisfied with a mere web-presence. No, websites have become true applications in their own right. Instead of being a by-product, most businesses acknowledge that the web offers them a nice channel to do business. However, the demands from the business keeps growing as each company want to be better than its competitors.

The increasing demands from the business have a direct influence on the applications complexity. Each time, especially when joining external projects, I am amazed by the way complexity is dealt with in most applications. “Building software isn’t rocket science”, but sometimes we do seem to make it just as complex.

In this article, I provide some insight in different forms of complexity, and how software development teams can design their application in order to deal with the ever growing demands from the business.

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Exploring the world of Android :: Part 3

October 8th, 2009 by Tom van Zummeren
(http://blog.jteam.nl/2009/10/08/exploring-the-world-of-android-part-3/)

In my travels through the world of Android I faced a lot of challenges. Brave as I am, *cough* I conquered each one of them. A few of the challenges include saving activity state, asynchronous tasks, pagination, error handling, context/option menu’s and even drawing custom application/tab icons in Photoshop! Some challenges I already shared with you guys, but there is one challenge in particular I would like to elaborate on this time.

The app I am currently building is getting larger every day, and so is the main Activity class! Because my main activity contains a TabHost with a bunch of tabs, it also contains references to all individual view components contained in those tabs. All kinds of listeners are registered on those components so the activity contains some inner and anonymous classes as well. So you could say that this activity now has way too much responsibility! What I was looking for, is a way to separate the main activity into multiple parts, each with its own clear responsibility.

As it turns out, you can create custom components for a single piece of functionality within an Activity. Exactly what I was looking for!
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