Architecture
According to the seminal book on software architecture, written by Shaw and Garlan [1996], software architecture “involves the description of elements from which systems are built, interactions among those elements, patterns that guide their composition, and constraints on these patterns. In general, a particular system is defined in terms of a collection of components and interactions among those components.” What we're most concerned with here is what Shaw and Garlan refer to as the architectural pattern or style.
Style is the general model of how the system is composed and how the different parts interact with each other. You've probably run across object-oriented, layered, and client-server styles of software architecture. We'll ...
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