Hi all, On my opinion, at this moment, Software Architectures are so abstract that relatively it is not very useful for developers. All that a lot of people can read about this topic are generalities that are very far from day-to-day practitioners and software architects that work in software industries.
Nevertheless, I think that we need architecture for understanding systems, organising its development, and making reuse more real. But perhaps we need an intermediate (and new) concept to bring software architecture to software development. Describing different software architectures is not enough. I think that this new concept must to extend design patterns� success. This concept (that I have named �Archetypes�) is a form of documenting (in one document): Functional requirements. Logic architectures (layers, pipelines, etc). Physic architecture (real components, frameworks, deployment configurations, etc). The idea is develop a tree of documents related with areas of software (web portals, enterprise information systems). The final documents represent specific type of software system, with defined logic architecture and patterns, and with specific physic architecture (frameworks, components, etc). Higher documents in the tree will be only related to specific types of software systems, and logic architectures. I developed this concept in a small article (It is not updated with the keyword �archetype�, I use (badly) the term �pattern language�): http://www.moisesdaniel.com/wri/htdsalp.html . An example of archetype would be an article that I wrote: �Enterprise Information Systems� Architecture� http://www.moisesdaniel.com/wri/eisarc.html. I think that identifying main architectures and patterns is only a part of the real objective: we need methodologies that can manage in a direct way the architectural subject and I think that Archetypes can be a bridge between Software Architectures and Methodologies. What I�m searching at this moment is opinions about if this concept would be interesting and useful. Excuse me if all what I�m commenting is not very reasonable. Best Regard, Mois�s D. D�az ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: �100 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, m�s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es _______________________________________________ patterns-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/patterns-discussion
