Architecture = Abstractions over Software

ions over Software Eyun Eli Jacobsen Bent Bruun Kristensen Palle Nowack The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology University of Southern Denmark/Odense University, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark e-mail: {jacobsen, bbkristensen, nowack}@mip.ou.dk Abstract Design of software architecture is seen as abstraction over the software domain, and describing architecture is considered to be a modeling process. A general view of a modeling process is presented and illustrated in the context of application domain modeling and of software domain modeling. The implications of this perspective are investigated in order to capture objectives and concrete forms of architectural descriptions. The consequences of this perspective on architecture are characterized. 1: Introduction In every software system, some architecture is present. The problem is that architecture is only implicitly available. The architecture did exist for developers during the design phase, but because it wa..