Users As an architect designing security implementations, one of the first things to work on is the storage and management of user information. J2EE and .Net allow for a variety of options regarding users. Both support LDAP and RDBMS as user stores while the .Net platform also adds its own Active Directory as a user solution. The architect may view the straightforward integration with Active Di...

A continuous tension exists between the day to day requirements for a new product and the requirements in exceptional cases. The System Architect must understand both requirements and be able to discuss them in terms of value in order to make a balanced product. This article gives some handles to tackle this problem. This article builds upon the paper "Requirements Capturing by the System Archi...

An architect who writes an architecture document is not the only one involved in the process of building the architecture. And many more people are involved in the process of information systems development, which can be seen as a chain of activities, one of which is building the architecture. All these people are influenced by the decisions the architect makes when writing his architecture doc...