Chapter 1. Components, Services, and Architectures

Objectives

When you talk about an architecture, you have to be clear about the scope of that architecture. It might be the architecture of an overall solution or that of a specific service. Complicating this understanding is the relationship that exists between these architectures if the service is a part of the solution. A specification is an architecture that defines this relationship.

This chapter presents an overview of these and other concepts for which details are explored in subsequent chapters. After reading this chapter you should be able to describe the following concepts:

• Architecture views

• The hierarchy of architectures

• Solution architecture

• Service architecture, comprising ...

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