Processing Diagrams: Deployable Code/Configuration Units and Their Deployment on Technical Platforms
The article explains processing diagrams that focus on deployable code and configuration units, detailing how to group application components into deployment units, their interactions, capacity considerations, and illustrates these concepts using UML/BPMN EAP profiles and Archimate diagrams.
Processing diagrams focus on deployable code and configuration units and describe how to deploy them on technical platforms. Deployment units represent groupings of business functions, services, or application component groups.
Key questions addressed include which application components to group into a deployment unit, how deployment units interact across LAN/WAN and protocols, and how configuration and usage patterns affect load and capacity requirements.
Deployment units can be component instances that host application components or physical utility components such as application servers. Relationships between units denote connections (e.g., networks) and information flows indicate the nature of exchanged data, with capacity requirements indicated in the charts.
UML/BPMN EAP Profile
The profile defines entity application components (derived from business entities), process application components (orchestrating business processes), utility components (reusable off‑the‑shelf parts), information flows (defining data exchange between enterprise activity entities), and class associations (named with role names and cardinalities).
Archimate
The Archimate diagram shows deployment of application components on various types of application servers, while remaining independent of future physical server deployment.
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