The Deployment View

This view of architecture involves mapping software to processing nodes—it shows the configuration of run-time processing elements and the software processes living on them. The deployment view takes into account requirements such as system availability, reliability, performance, and scalability. Deployment diagrams are created to show the different nodes along with their connections in the system. The deployment diagram visualizes the distribution of components across the enterprise. Run-time processing elements are represented as nodes, which are connected by associations indicating communication paths between them. Software processes are illustrated as text attached to a node or group of nodes.

This diagram allows the architecture ...

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