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 didn’t happen by accident.
If you don’t have time go though the 88 minute presentation, here is a nice sysnopsis by Mike Nereson.
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Mike
Thanks for the mention. If you are into architecture (which I can see that you are) please take a quick look at a library that I wrote to wrap jdepend to assert architecture rules when you run your tests.
http://mikenereson.com
Cheers!