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Who should use this site?

This site is for anyone who needs to create an e-business solution, including:

  • System architect, designing a new Web application that needs to incorporate existing applications and technology
  • Solution provider, configuring a complete e-business application for a customer
  • Technical sales team, completing final preparations to illustrate how their new technology is best used
  • Other IT architect, needing to understand the technology and products used for e-business application development

Before you use this site

The Patterns for e-business provide valuable information to develop your e-business application. However, before you begin using this Web site, you should understand the:

  • Business problem to be solved
  • Current application and data configuration
  • Installed runtime products
  • Available skills
  • Quality of service required

In addition, you should have a development methodology that ensures:

  • You fully understand the customer's total requirements.
  • You and your customer agree to the use cases up front.
  • All development is done within the context of an overall customer architecture.
  • The implications of the availability, scalability, recovery, and other requirements are fully engineered into the physical configuration you recommend.

The patterns are designed to meet 80% of most common customer requirements. If you use the patterns within a structured development methodology, you can extend their scope to meet almost all of your customer's requirements. Note also that, where IBM products are listed as part of pattern implementations, IBM products are not the only solution option.

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New or updated

  • Patterns for e-business Timeline

    Updated: 10-20-2010
    The Patterns for e-business Timeline keeps track of updates to the Web site.

  • P4eb revised for new and enhanced IT solutions

    Updated: 10-20-2010
    Added a revised home page for P4eb describing the revised solution architecture process for addressing new & enhanced IT solutions.

  • Renamed Integration patterns

    Updated: 10-20-2010
    The Access Integration and Application Integration patterns have been renamed Front-end and Back-end Integration patterns respectively.

  • New PBE book published

    Updated: 09-01-2010
    A new PBE book is published with the title "Patterns-Based Engineering: Successfully Delivering Solutions via Patterns".

  • New Application pattern

    Updated: 09-01-2010
    The Extended Enterprise patterns have been refreshed and extended.

  • MS Visio Shapes

    Updated: 09-01-2010
    MS Visio Shapes for Visio Professional 2003 Version: 11 for e-business Patterns are available to download at the Patterns resource page.

  • Revised Scenario decomposition framework

    Updated: 03-13-2010
    Revised the Scenario decomposition framework to make it easier to apply.

  • New Application pattern

    Updated: 03-12-2010
    The Content-Centric BPM pattern has been added as a variation to the Enterprise Process-Centric::Parallel Workflow pattern.

  • Revised Application patterns

    Updated: 03-12-2010
    The Collaboration application patterns have been revised.

  • New guidance

    Updated: 03-12-2010
    Added guidance on the use of the revised P4eb Scenario decomposition framework.

  • Revised Business patterns

    Updated: 03-12-2010
    This article introduces the reader to the revised Business patterns of P4eb. See Process-Centric and Event-Centric business and application patterns for details.

  • Pattern Solutions Website

    Updated: 09-30-2005
    The Pattern Solutions web site provides a one stop entry point for pattern solutions content and resources that will assist you in automating the development of complex enterprise applications.

  • Order the Patterns book

    Patterns for e-business: A Strategy for Reuse is out of print but you can order it second hand from any of the booksellers at bestwebbuys.com.
    This book documents proven designs and new directions in reusable e-business architectures.

Resources

  • Updated: 03-12-2010

    The Patterns Resource page provides links to Patterns development resources: Redbooks, White papers, Screen Cams, WebCasts, Customer references and the zipped translated web sites. All these resources are now centrally located on the Patterns Resources page for easy access.

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