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Software Fortresses Roger Sessions. 2003. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. 301 pages. ISBN: 0-321-16608-6.
This book discusses "software fortresses" and uses this metaphor in discussing a "hostile world" where matters of interoperability and security are the "two major issues facing the enterprise." After some introductory material Sessions discusses "transactional integrity" as background "to understand the many flavors of the word transaction and how different parts of software fortresses cooperate to coordinate their work." Other topics in his book are:
* Drawbridges (synchronous and asynchronous)-"the information pipelines for the enterprise architecture," which "carry messages from one fortress to another"
* Security implementation-keeping things out, that is, "walls," and letting things in, that is, "guards"
* Partnerships...