Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition

Part Four. Moving From One System to Many

Part Four continues our tour of the Architecture Business Cycle. Parts One, Two, and Three Three took us from the architect to a reviewed architecture. Part Four focuses on the construction of multiple systems from that architecture, discussing, and giving examples of system product lines. It does this from five perspectives: that of the technology underlying a product line, that of a single company that built a product line of naval vessel fire-control systems, that of an industry-wide architecture, that of a single company producing products based on the industry-wide architecture, and that of an organization building systems from commercial components.

Software product lines have the potential ...