Best Practices

History and Background of Layered Architecture Layered Architecture is a design pattern established in 1990s enterprise application development to realize the Separation of Concerns principle. It was systematized in Martin Fowler’s “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture” (2002). The traditional 3-layer architecture consists of Presentation Layer, Business Logic Layer, and Data Access Layer. Spring Framework has made this structure easily implementable through @Controller, @Service, and @Repository annotations, becoming the de facto standard for Java enterprise development. ...