[PEAK] Re: Proposal for another Wiki "tutorial"

[John Landahl]

On Friday 16 July 2004 06:39 pm, Doug Quale wrote:
> Is there any interest in describing how parts of PEAK relate to the
> patterns Fowler describes in
> _Patterns_of_Enterprise_Application_Architecture_ on the devcenter
> wiki?  There is a start to this as Fowler's book is mentioned on the
> wiki, but a more explicit statement of how various parts of PEAK fit
> into the patterns he describes would really be helpful.

I agree.  The existing (nearly empty) PEAA page could list relevant patterns 
and link to their equivalent in PEAK, and vice versa.

> For example, PEAK Data Managers seem to correspond most closely 
> to the data source architectural pattern that Fowler calls Data 
> Mapper.

That's right, it Data Managers and Data Mappers are equivalent.

> (If this is correct, the fact that the initials match is a happy
> circumstance.) 

It might be intentional (Phillip?), at least it always seemed like too much of 
a coincidence to me. :)