Case Study Design

7.6 Summary

This chapter has described and documented some of the design decisions taken in the ICDE application. The aim has been to convey the thinking and analysis that is necessary to design such an architecture, and demonstrate the level of design documentation that should suffice in many projects.

Note that some of the finer details of the design are necessarily glossed over due to the space constraints of this forum. But the ICDE example is representative of a medium complexity application, and hence provides an excellent exemplar of the work of a software architect.