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Software Architecture Definition of Software Architecture Definition: The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships among them. [Bass 98] 四层Web应用程序的构架基本构架 Short History of SA (软件体系结构简史) In 1990’s, the term software architecture began to gain widespread acceptance both in industry and the research community. The field software architecture was created out of necessity. In 1990’s, Software systems were growing larger: systems of hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines of code were becoming commonplace. Short History of SA (软件体系结构简史) Three reasons why SA is important to large, complex, software-intensive systems. It is a vehicle for communication among stakeholders. Software architecture represents a common abstraction of a system that most of the systems stakeholders can use as a basis to communicate with each other. Stakeholder: 各方利益者 2. It is the representation of the earliest design decisions. The SA of a system is the artifact that has the most significant influence on system qualities. It shows the tradeoffs (折衷) between performance and security, Fire wall makes your networks safe, but may affect the performance between maintainability and reliability A piece of control software written in assembly language between the cost of the current development effort and the cost of future developments in the architecture. 3. It is a reusable, transferable abstraction of a system. Software architecture constitutes (组成) a relatively small, intellectually graspable (智力上能理解的) model for how a system is structured and how its components work together. This model is transferable (可转移的) across systems; it can be applied to other systems exhibiting similar requirements and (用到其它的项目) can promote large-scale reuse and software product lines (提高大规模重复利用率)