The Implementation View
This view of architecture concerns itself with the actual software module organization within the development environment. The implementation view of architecture takes into account derived requirements related to ease of development, software management, reuse, and constraints imposed by programming languages and development tools. The modeling elements in the component view of architecture are packages and components along with their connections.
A package in this view of architecture represents a physical partitioning of the system. The packages are organized in a hierarchy of layers where each layer has a well-defined interface. The fact that an object-oriented system tends to be a layered system should not bring any ...
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