The Architecture of Gap Inc's SCMS

SCMS PO is an application that helps Gap Inc. manage purchase orders. The architecture of the application is well liked by its development team and thus makes a good expositional architecture for a system with a rich javascript front end working with a back-end serving json. Interesting design features include using knockout.js form of the Presentation Model pattern, a javascript validator running on both client and server, encapsulating data access with repositories, using MongoDB as an application database, and the testing portfolio.

Martin Fowler

23 April 2013

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