The Process of Software Architecting

Chapter 9. Creating the Physical Architecture

In this chapter, we move from the logical architecture discussed in Chapter 8, “Creating the Logical Architecture,” to the creation of the corresponding physical architecture. Unlike its logical counterpart, the physical architecture acknowledges all the products and technologies that will be used for detailed physical design and, ultimately, coding.

As described in Chapter 4, “Documenting a Software Architecture,” a model moves through discrete levels of realization during its life from an initial model whose content is very conceptual to a model whose content is detailed enough to be used as the basis for implementation. In this chapter, we show how the two key models used to describe ...