6 Architectural design
Objectives
The objective of this chapter is to introduce the concepts of software architecture and architectural design. When you have read the chapter, you will:
understand why the architectural design of software is important;
understand the decisions that have to be made about the software architecture during the architectural design process;
have been introduced to the idea of Architectural patterns, well-tried ways of organizing software architectures that can be reused in system designs;
understand how Application-Specific Architectural patterns may be used in transaction processing and language processing systems.
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