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3. Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer, ???Software Architecture: Central Concerns, Key Decisions,??? 2005, Bredemeyer
Consulting, p. 8.
CHAPTER 15
SERVICE-ORIENTED CONCEPTUAL
ARCHITECTURE MODELING PRINCIPLES
A conceptual architecture offers different perspectives of service-oriented software implementations.
It describes a technological environment where interacting elements collaborate to solve a
problem. This depiction merely abstracts the technical details of an existing or future concrete,
service-oriented landscape. It simply accentuates the technological concepts.
Before a physical architecture for a project or a larger organizational initiative can be
developed, a conceptual architecture must exist. These technological abstractions are analogous
to a high-level road map1 that offers general directions to accomplishing certain goals while providing
a valuable technological orientation. These points of reference to the existing environment
or future implementations must present coherent solutions to ongoing or lasting organizational
problems or offer short-term solutions to small-scale projects.
A conceptual architecture identifies the major building blocks of a solution. These identifi-
able technological abstractions should also establish a conceptual vocabulary that can be leveraged
to communicate technological ideas across organizations, lines of business, or business domains.
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