Network computing hardware diagrams
Starting with the transformation to client-server systems from mainframes and later with the advent of e-Business and J2EE, large enterprises moved predominantly into a highly network-based distributed network computing environment, with firewalls and demilitarized zones. Currently, most applications have a web front-end, and looking at the deployment architecture of these applications, it is very common to find three distinct layers in the network landscape: a web presentation layer, a business logic or application layer, and a back-end data store layer. It is a common practice for applications to be deployed and hosted in a shared and common infrastructure environment. Therefore, it becomes highly critical to document the mapping between logical applications and the technology components (for example, servers) that support the application both in the development and production environments. The purpose of the network computing hardware diagram is to show the deployed logical view of logical application components in a distributed network computing environment.
Server device: Represents a hardware platform, that can be connected to other devices, and on which application components are deployed.
Workstation: Workstations are connected via network links to the IS. Application components can be deployed there.
Process application component: A process application component is responsible for a business process execution. It orchestrates the tasks of the process.
Entity application component: An entity component is frequently derived from business entities, and is responsible for managing the access to the entity, and its integrity.
Utility component: Represents an application component that is frequently reused, and most of the cases bought off the shelf.
Interaction application component: Represents the top level components that manage the interaction with elements outside the IS. In most cases, it is a GUI component, such as here a web interface.
Database application component: This represents a repository. In pure SOA architecture, these elements should not appear. However, for legacy analysis or technology architecture, modeling repositories or repository deployment can be useful.
Application: This application component corresponds to legacy applications, off the shelf products, or can be an assembly of application components.
Internal actor: An actor that belongs to the enterprise
Association between two classes: An association has a name, and for each extremity provides the role name and cardinalities (possible number of occurrences) of related elements.
This diagram shows where application components are deployed, how the computers are networked, and so on.
This diagram presents the hardware (servers, workstations) that are interconnected by a network, as well as the technical and application components that are deployed on this hardware.
Technical, architectural components such as web servers are added to the logical components identified in the application architecture.
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