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LayeredArchitecture

[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/refactoring/message/5295 In defense of layered architectures] by Harald Mueller on the Refactoring yahoogroup.

[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/refactoring/message/5287 The problem with globals] by John Carter on the Refactoring yahoogroup.

[http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DatabaseStyles.html Database Styles] by Martin Fowler, discussing the difference between an Application Database and an Integration Database.

The Field of Software Architecture [http://wwwbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/publ/papers/TUM-I9641.pdf PDF] by Christoph Hofmann, Eckart Horn, Wolfgang Keller, Klaus Renzel, Monika Schmidt