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| Here are some examples of commonly encountered architectural mechanisms.<br /> |
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| <strong>Example Architectural Mechanisms</strong> |
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| Architectural Mechanism |
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| Description |
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| Availability |
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| The percentage of time that the system must be available for use, including planned outages. |
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| Archiving |
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| Provides a means to move data from active storage when it has reached a specific state. |
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| Auditing |
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| Provides audit trails of system execution. |
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| Communication |
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| A mechanism for handling inter-process communication. |
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| Debugging |
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| Provides elements to support application debugging. |
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| Disaster Recovery |
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| Provides facilities to recover systems, application, data and networks. |
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| Error Management |
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| Allows errors to be detected, propagated, and reported. |
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| Event Management |
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| Supports the use of asynchronous events within a system. |
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| Graphics |
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| Supports user interface services, such as 3D rendering. |
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| Information Exchange |
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| Supports information interchange accross technical and organisational boundaries, with appropriate semantic |
| and format translations. |
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| Licensing |
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| Provides services for acquiring, installing, tracking, and monitoring license usage. Might be required as |
| part of authorising corporate bodies. |
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| Localisation / Internationalisation |
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| Provides facilities for supporting multiple human languages and rendering the language preffered by the |
| user. |
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| Mail |
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| Services that allow applications to send and receive electronic mail. |
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| Mega-data |
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| Support for handling very large amounts of data. |
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| Memory Management |
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| Services for abstracting how memory is allocated and freed. |
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| Meta-data |
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| Supports the runtime introspection of components and data. |
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| Online help |
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| Provides online help capability |
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| Persistence |
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| Services to handle the reading and writing of stored data. |
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| Printing |
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| Provides facilities for interfacing with printers. |
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| Process Management |
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| Provides support for the management of processes and threads. |
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| Reporting |
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| Provides flexible reporting facilities |
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| Resource Management |
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| Provides support for the management of expensive resources, such as database connections. |
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| Scheduling |
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| Provides the ability to execute tasks at a specified time. |
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| Security |
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| Provides services to protect access to certain resources or information. |
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| System Management |
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| Services that facilitate management of applications in an operational environment. |
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| Time |
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| Services to synchronise time on a network, and to translate times into different time zones. |
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| Transaction Management |
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| A mechanism for handling ACID transactions. |
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| Workflow |
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| Support for the movement of documents and other items of work, typically through an organisation. |
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