Architecture Styles

I’ve been looking for examples of how to organize software architecture styles.    One book that looks promising so far is Software Architecture Design – Methodology and Styles.  In this book, the authors identify the following architecture styles:

• Component-Based Software Architecture
• Data Centered Software Architecture
• Data Flow Architecture
• Distributed Architecture
• Hierarchy Architecture
• Implicit Asynchronous Communication Software Architecture
• Interaction Oriented Software Architecture
• Object Oriented Architecture

Summary Table of Architecture Styles

Here’s a summary table that shows the architecture styles and examples.

Style	Examples
Component-Based Software Architecture	–
Data Centered Software Architecture	Repository Architecture Style Blackboard Architecture Style
Data Flow Architecture	Batch Sequential Pipe & Filter Architecture Process-Control Architecture
Distributed Architecture	Client/ Server Multi-tier Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Hierarchy Architecture	Main/Subroutine Software Architecture Master/Slaves Software Architecture Layered Architecture Virtual Machine
Implicit Asynchronous Communication Software Architecture	Non-Buffered Event-Based Implicit Invocations Buffered Message-Based Software Architecture
Interaction Oriented Software Architecture	Model-View-Controller Presentation-Abstraction-Control (PAC) Architecture
Object Oriented Architecture	–

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