Archive for June, 2008

Capabilities & Requirements Architectural Pattern

Friday, June 20th, 2008

This is the third pattern in an architectural pattern set. The first (Information Models) can be found here, the second (Policy) can be found here .
Intent
Provide a mechanism to reconcile the capabilities of a service with the requirements of a client. This in turn means that there must a mechanism to describe the capabilities of […]

Architectural Pattern - Policy

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

This is the second in an architectural pattern set. The first (Information Models) can be found here.
Intent

Provide a controlled environment in which decisions can be made and enforced.
Problem

Whilst it is obviously possible to make and enforce any arbitrary decision in any arbitrary programming language it is difficult to control, manage, deploy, modify, inspect and verify […]

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