September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
11h 7m
English
This chapter discusses the following.
The definition of architecture
Logical architecture
Physical architecture
The Five Views of architecture
Subsystem and Component View
Concurrency and Resource View
Distribution View
Safety and Reliability View
Deployment View
Implementing architectures
Model-driven architecture
Creating architectural elements
There are many ways to define the term architecture. We will define it in a specific way here and use it as a basis for capturing patterns for the main part of this book. Architecture is defined as the set of strategic design decisions that affect most or all of the system. The differentiation from other (smaller-scale) design decisions has to do with the scope of the ...
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