August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Content preview from Software Architect's Handbook
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Externally developed software
When designing a software architecture, you will be making design decisions for a number of design issues. Some of these design issues already have solutions in the form of concrete implementations that have been developed externally. Rather than build a solution in-house to solve a particular design issue, you can leverage software that has already been developed outside of the organization.
The externally developed software can come in different forms, such as a component, an application framework, a software product, or a platform. There are many examples of externally developed software, such as a logging library for logging functionality, a UI framework for creating user interfaces, or a development platform ...