1. vrije Universiteit amsterdamPostacademische Cursus Informatie Technologie Software architecture architecture -- components and boundaries case study -- a framework for multimedia feature detection native objects -- the language boundary embedded logic -- the paradigm boundary architectural styles -- distributed object technology cross-platform development -- Unix versus Windows Additional keywords and phrases: components, information architecture, multimedia information retrieval, feature detection, portability

2. vrije Universiteit amsterdamPostacademische Cursus Informatie Technologie Elements of Architecture processing elements -- transformation on data data elements -- contain information connections -- glue that holds elements together [Wolf]

3. vrije Universiteit amsterdamPostacademische Cursus Informatie Technologie Models and Views logical -- functional requirements process -- performance, availability, distribution physical -- scalability, configuration development -- organization of software modules scenarios -- instances of use cases Definitions http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/definitions.html [Kruchten95]

4. vrije Universiteit amsterdamPostacademische Cursus Informatie Technologie The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure of the system, which comprises software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and their interrelationships. Bass et al.

5. vrije Universiteit amsterdamPostacademische Cursus Informatie Technologie Technological infrastructure client-platform -- hardware, OS presentation services -- windows, multimedia application software -- code, business logic network -- communication support middleware -- distribution, (object) brokers server platform -- hardware, OS database -- data management system [CS2001]

6. vrije Universiteit amsterdamPostacademische Cursus Informatie Technologie Distributed Object Patterns Framework (class hierarchies) Applications (wrappers) System (horizontal, vertical, metadata) Enterprise (reference models, infrastructure, policies) Intra/Internet (standards) [CorbaPatterns]