Building Web Applications with UML Second Edition

Summary

• Architecture is about everything. An architecture description is essentially a selective and miniature version of the project artifacts.

• Software architecture is concerned with the significant architectural requirements (SARs). These are the requirements that influence the structure, arrangement, and constraints for all parts of the developing system.

• Architecture is expressed through viewpoints.

• The requirements viewpoint in an architecture description serves essentially as support and reasoning for the decisions made elsewhere.

• The design viewpoint expresses the logical components and their structural relationships. It also expresses their dynamics in terms of collaborations.

• The realization viewpoint expresses how the logical and process ...