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vhquijia
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Hi

Please, is there any tutorial to configure the Software Architecture;Logical Technology Builds and
Physical Technology Platform to Application Provider?

I need a example.

Thanks

Regards

Victor Hugo

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vhquijia
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Hi

Please anyone that help me with this.

Thanks

Regards

Victor Hugo
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jonathan.carter
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Hi Victor,

This is a view that we are re-working for version 5 - partly because these sections are tricky to get to render in this view.

To get the Technology sections completed:
  1. Define the set of Technology Capabilities that this application requires from its technical platform
  2. Define a logical technology architecture by building a graphical model, defining the technology components of the architecture. Remember that each component on the diagram is a usage and must be wired up to the actual technology component that it represents.
  3. Create a Technology Composite for Application Provider from its “Depends on Technology” slot. This creates a new instance (give it a name - e.g. the application’s logical technology architecture) and then in its Technology Component Architecture slot, pick the Logical Technology Architecture you defined in step 2.

    To make the products appear, you need to define a Technology Product architecture for each environment. One environment is fine but you can define different product architectures for the different environments, e.g. the servers might be different in test vs production.

    Probably the easiest thing to do, here, is in the “Realised by Technology Products” slot on the Technology Composite, create a new instance for each product architecture. This brings up another ‘definition’ instance in which you can define things like the lifecycle etc. and enables you to “black box” the actual architecture.

    In the Technology Provider Playing Role slot, we define the product build that defines the architecture. Again, this is a black-box so defines the architecture itself.

    On this Technology Product Build instance, we can then, in the Technology Provider Architecture slot, create a new instance to define the set of Products (playing roles, e.g. Oracle as RBDMS) and the relationships between them in the context of this architecture.

    The last step, so that we know which technology architecture is being used by which application environment is to create an Application Deployment and to connect the Technology Provider Architecture to this Application Deployment.
This should produce an image on the view and a table describing the products that are being used in the architecture and the roles that each is playing.

The Software Architecture works in a similar way but is describing different things - the key components within the application, rather than the technology architecture.

The Physical Technology architecture section is related to an Application Deployment - via the Deployed Application Instances. To select which technology product deployments are specifically being used - you can relate each “usage” on the Technology Product Architecture with the Technology Instances. However, this gets rather complex, rather quickly. If you need to have a deep understanding of the fine-grain specifics, it can be useful but in practice it’s often too detailed.

Hope this gives you some pointers but we do provide full training on how this area of the meta model works.

Jonathan
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vhquijia
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Hi Jonathan

Please, which slot in Technology Architecure I must be configure to:

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2. Define a logical technology architecture by building a graphical model, defining the technology components of the architecture. Remember that each component on the diagram is a usage and must be wired up to the actual technology component that it represents.
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Thanks

Victor H
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jonathan.carter
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You use the "Depends on Technology" slot on the Application Provider to define the Logical Technology Model (types of technology rather than actual products).

You then use the "Application Deployment Technical Architecture" slot on the Application Deployment of that Application Provider to define the Technology Build (the architecture of actual products) that supports that application deployment.

That build is a "black box" for a "Technology Provider Architecture" and encapsulates it - so you can keep track of it, assign relationships etc. without modelling what's actually in that architecture. To define the Products that are used, create a Technology Provider Architecture in that slot (or reuse an existing one).

Jonathan
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