IT Architectural Styles: Less Esthetics, More Engineering Tradeoffs

by Mike Rosen

Most applications, enterprises, or products will have unique architectures designed to meet their specific goals and requirements, though many of them will be very similar. For example, the architecture for a portal application at one company will probably resemble a portal application at another company of like size and business function. This implies that there is a difference between a specific architecture and the type of application it defines. The common industry term for the latter is architectural style.

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IT Architectural Styles: Less Esthetics, More Engineering Tradeoffs8 October 2008