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Essays on Software Architecture (16018 words) |
 | Effective use of architecture as a means to reduce and manage system complexity appears to depend rather heavily on the use of prescriptive architectures, that is, architectures that serve as specifications for system development and constrain developers with regard to certain important system issues. |
 | Architectural views for a reference architecture will identify the external and component level interfaces by specific details where known and by abstractions where they are determined by target system elaboration. |
 | The architecture must clearly derive from a set of driving architectural requirements that are adjudged by the architects and other stakeholders to be of sufficient importance to the system and its qualities that specific architectural mechanisms are required to insure their coverage. |