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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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            &lt;th scope=&quot;col&quot;&gt;
                Architectural Mechanism
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            &lt;th scope=&quot;col&quot;&gt;
                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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            &lt;td&gt;
                Auditing
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                Provides audit trails of system execution.
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                Communication
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            &lt;td&gt;
                A mechanism for handling inter-process communication.
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            &lt;td&gt;
                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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            &lt;td&gt;
                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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            &lt;td&gt;
                Information Exchange
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            &lt;td&gt;
                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.
            &lt;/td&gt;
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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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            &lt;td&gt;
                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
            &lt;/td&gt;
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            &lt;td&gt;
                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.
            &lt;/td&gt;
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            &lt;td&gt;
                Process Management
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                Provides support for the management of processes and threads.
            &lt;/td&gt;
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                Reporting
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                Provides flexible reporting facilities
            &lt;/td&gt;
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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.
            &lt;/td&gt;
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                Security
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                Provides services to protect access to certain resources or information.
            &lt;/td&gt;
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            &lt;td&gt;
                System Management
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            &lt;td&gt;
                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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