Architectural pattern (computer science)

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Architectural patterns are software patterns that offer well-established solutions to architectural problems in software engineering. An architectural pattern expresses a fundamental structural organization schema for a software system. The schema consists of predefined subsystems and specifies their responsibilities and relations. In comparison to Design patterns, architectural patterns are larger in scope.

Examples of architectural patterns include:

• Model-view-controller
• Presentation-abstraction-control
• Client-server
• Three-tier
• Service-oriented architecture
• Pipeline
• Implicit invocation
• Observer pattern

[edit] References

• Paris Avgeriou (2005). "Architectural patterns revisited - a pattern language". Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPlop 2005), Irsee, Germany, July 2005: pp. 1-39. 

• Buchman F., Meunier R., Rohnert H. & Sommerlad P. & Stall M. (1996). Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns.