Monthly Archives: August 2007

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

A lot of work went into this. A "periodic table" of visualization methods for data, information, concepts, strategy, metaphors, process and structure. Here’s a screen shot – be sure and visit the original if you’re interested – when you mouse … Read More

Package design matters – Part 1

Java packages are often used like file-system folders to organize source. But source files differ from “normal” files in that they are highly inter-dependent. Considering this interdependence as a package hierarchy evolves can have significant productivity benefits. Packages as Folders … Read More

An Overview of Structure101 Architecture Diagrams

Structure101 lets you work with both structure (the whole code-base as it is) and architecture (the subset of the structure that you really care about, and how it should be). It lets you define the architecture in the context of … Read More

Beautiful Structure

In response to O’Reilly’s just-published Beautiful Code, Johnathan Edwards explains why he couldn’t go along with the premise. One sentence in his excellent piece stood out for me: “The human mind can not grasp the complexity of a moderately sized … Read More

Spring Framework 2.1 M3 Architecture

Here are some architecture diagrams for Spring Framework 2.1 M3 (released yesterday). You can point the (free) structure101 plug-in at these and get IDE warnings if your customizations break Jeurgen’s architecture. Here is the top level breakout of org.springframework: Structure101 … Read More

Code Organization Guidelines for Large Code Bases

In an excellent on-line presentation Juergen Hoeller gives rationale and guidelines for controlling the structure of large, evolving code-bases. Juergen is the chief architect of the Spring framework, which as I have previously pointed out is structurally almost perfect. This … Read More