Pattern-Oriented Approach for Enterprise Architecture: TOGAF Framework
Mohamed Taleb, Omar Cherkaoui
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DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2012.51008   PDF    HTML   XML   10,660 Downloads   18,593 Views   Citations

Abstract

Design pattern suggests that developers must be able to reuse proven solutions emerging from the best design practices to solve common design problems while composing patterns to create reusable designs that can be mapped to different types of enterprise frameworks and architectures such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). Without this, business analysts, designers and developers are not properly applying design solutions or take full benefit of the power of patterns as reuse blocks, resulting in poor performance, poor scalability, and poor usability. Furthermore, these professionals may “reinvent the wheel” when attempting to implement the same design for different types of architectures of TOGAF framework. In this paper, we introduce different categories of design patterns as a vehicle for capturing and reusing good analyses, designs and implementation applied to TOGAF framework while detailing a motivating exemplar on how design patterns can be composed to create generic types of architectures of TOGAF framework. Then, we discuss why patterns are a suitable for developing and documenting various architectures including enterprise architectures as TOGAF.

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M. Taleb and O. Cherkaoui, "Pattern-Oriented Approach for Enterprise Architecture: TOGAF Framework," Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol. 5 No. 1, 2012, pp. 45-50. doi: 10.4236/jsea.2012.51008.

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