Inc. The consulting company founded by Seven Spewak the author of Enterprise Architecture Planning Meta Group Meta have a practice area in Enterprise Architecture headed by Larry DeBoever . Meta is the sponsor of the Enterprise Architecture conferences. This is an interesting framework for creating a business object management architecture. The Pattern Repository is a site devoted to the use of Patterns and Pattern languages in software design. This is an excellent partner to the Design Patterns book.
Fowler presents a series of patterns that present the essence of good domain modelling practices.
The examples are based on models developed on real projects for paying clients, yet Fowler is able to talk about the abstract problems that are being addressed in a way that shows how the pattern he is describing will be relevant in many domains. That said it is not clear that the terminology in this book will enter the lexicon in quite the way the patterns of the GoF have. This book picks up where Systems Architecting finished. In comparison this book has a much richer set of models and talks more directly to the issues of large scale software engineering. David Hay presents avery rich view of abstract data modeling.