A Web Application Architecture Framework

Xiaoying Kong, Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney Email: xiaoying.kong@uts.edu.au

Li Liu, Lecturer, Project Management Graduate Programme, The University of Sydney Email: l.liu@staff.usyd.edu.au

Keywords

architecture framework, architecture classification, web management, web modelling, web engineering, web information system, web architecture, web design, web development tools, traceability 

Abstract

As the complexity of web systems grows, there is a need to develop an Architecture Framework to support and guide an organization for web system planning, design, building, deployment and maintenance. This paper presents an Architectural Framework to classify architectures taking into account characteristics of web systems. The framework establishes a two dimension matrix. One dimension separates the concerns of different participants of the web system into perspectives. The other dimension classifies each perspective into "structure (what), behaviour (how), location (where) and pattern". The framework is illustrated by examples from a commercial web application.