should describe the software structure

it should do transition from analysis to implementation

it should be viewed from different angles with different viewpoints

it should be simple and understandable

it should represent the framework for a flexible system

It should describe of the software architecture.

It should do transition from analysis to implementation

It should be viewed from different angles with different viewpoints.

It should be simple and understandable.

It should represent the framework for a flexible system.

Technical

Non-technical

Economic

Organizational changes/constraint

Patern

Framework

Focus on the platform

Challenges

Focus on the problem domain

Components

Content management architectures

Content management systems

Applications

Problems

Ordered data in a database.

Documents used in different word processing

multimedia data stored in media servers.

to integrate databases into Web applications

can be accessed either directly from within web server extensions (in two-tier architecture) or over application servers(in N-layer architectures).

Client request

Simple web application

complex, concurrent and business related operations