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It is a brave architect who, in today's environment, does not develop, or at least consider, an object-oriented design.

Architectural software styles

class of architectures

component types -- process, event, repository
runtime relations -- topology
semantic constraints -- immutability
communication and coordination -- connectors

slide: Architectural software styles

Themes and variations

technological constraints

OO -- simple call and return
CORBA -- independent components
WWW -- data centered
events -- independent components
logic -- virtual machine architecture

slide: Themes and variations

Architectural issues

managing growth, maintaining installed base
enhanced functionality -- synchronized multimedia
improved technological infrastructure -- HTTP-NG

slide: Architectural issues

Client NPP/Callbacks	Browser NPN/Calls
Instantiation and Destruction	Version Info
Stream Notification	Stream Creation and Destruction
Reading and Writing Streams	StreamAsFile
LiveConnect

Nevertheless, ignoring details, plugin architectures indicate what may become the dominant paradigm of the future, framework-like environments that are extensible by components following a clearly defined pattern or protocol; that is to say, components created according to the principles of object-oriented software development.

Æliens

2009

Architectural software styles

Themes and variations

Architectural issues