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<mainDescription>&lt;p&gt;
Here are some examples of commonly encountered architectural mechanisms.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Example Architectural Mechanisms&lt;/strong&gt;
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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&amp;nbsp;handle&amp;nbsp;the reading and&amp;nbsp;writing of&amp;nbsp;stored&amp;nbsp;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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