Architecture description language: Difference between revisions

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*Semantics of connections

*Behavior of a system as a whole

ADLs result from a linguistic approach to the formal representation of architectures, and as such they address its shortcomings. Also important, sophisticated ADLs allow for early analysis and feasabilityfeasibility testing of architectural design decisions.

==Characteristics==

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==Architecture vs. design==

So what is the dfferencedifference between architecture and design? Architecture casts non-functional decisions and partition functional requirements where design is a principle through which functional requirements are accomplished. Architectural heuristic means that it is necessary to go one level deeper to validate choices, so the architect has to do a high-level design to validate the partitioning

==Examples==