Foreword by Nenad Medvidovic Behold the Golden Age of Software Architecture
In the mid-to-late 1990s, I had the fortune of witnessing a great deal of activity and innovation that, today, is sometimes referred to as the “golden age” of software architecture research. As a community, we were trying to understand the phenomena underlying software systems' architectures, develop abstractions to capture those phenomena, construct models to embody the abstractions properly and effectively, analyze the models for interesting and important properties, and, finally, figure out how to implement systems that would inherit all of the positive and none of the negative characteristics we encountered along the way. This resulted in a seeming whirlwind of ...
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