Modeling Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF

Chapter 3

The Components of TOGAF Architecture

Abstract

This chapter is dedicated to part IV of TOGAF, which concentrates on the content framework, in other words, on the elements that will constitute the description of an architecture. This includes basic objects; deliverables; types of views such as catalogs, matrices, or diagrams; and the “building blocks” of the system.

Key Words

Artifact

Deliverable

Metamodel

Building block

Catalog

Matrix

Diagram

Viewpoint

Chapter Outline

3.1 Architecture components 42

3.1.1 Artifacts, deliverables, and building blocks 42

3.1.2 Using other content frameworks 43

3.2 The metamodel 43

3.2.1 The “TOGAF core metamodel” 43

3.2.2 Metamodel extensions 45

3.2.3 Conceptual, logical, and physical 47

3.2.4 Relationship ...