Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE™ Technology Study Guide

Introduction

There are many different definitions of the word architecture. Webster's definition is “the art or science of building.” Webster's computer industry definition of architecture is “the manner in which the components of a computer or computer system are arranged and integrated.” This chapter presents a variation of Webster's definition of architecture with the remainder of the book re-enforcing this definition.

Creating an architecture to build a system has increased ten-fold in the last couple of years, due to the growth of the Internet. Before the Internet explosion, an architect created an architecture to handle the internal users of the company, which could number in the hundreds. However, the Internet has opened a company's computing ...