Amy Brown and Greg Wilson, editors of The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Elegance, Evolution, and a Few Fearless Hacks(Lulu.com, 2011, 978-1-257-63801-7), have placed their entire volume of essays online under a Creative Commons license.
It's a collection of essays about the architecture of some familiar software products ...
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Java Code Geeks : The Architecture of Open Source Applications