SunTone Architecture Methodology

1. SunTone Architecture Methodology cyt

2. Outline

3. This paper details the key concepts in a 3-dimensional approach to creating dot-com system architecture. • SUNTONE ARCHITECTURE METHODOLOGY A 3-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN • The 3-Dimensional Framework that analyzes an architecture in terms of the three primary design dimensions: • Application Tiers, • Infrastructure Layers, • and Systemic Qualities. • The process of developing an architecture through the application of “architectural patterns”. • How QoS requirements should be used to drive the architecture definition process. • How these principles are synthesized into the SunTone Architecture Methodology, which is iterative and incremental, architecture-centric, use-case-focused, systemic qualities-driven, and pattern-based.

4. Sun's comprehensive approach for dot-comming the enterprise consists of the following primary components: • SunToneSM Architecture Methodology—a step-by-step process for creating dot-com architectures. • Our architecture reference model—a service driven architectural framework based on loosely coupled, asynchronous communication. • Architectural patterns—generic templates for structuring a system to meet rigorous system level requirements like scalability, securability, and manageability. • Solution sets—sample implementations of dot-com platforms such as e-tail, eCRM, eSCM, or Community Portals. • SI Partners—Consulting organizations certified to deliver the SunTone Architecture Methodology and particular solution sets. • ISV Partners—ISV products used to implement a solution set which are built with Java.2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE-technology) compliant products, or products with a well-defined roadmap for migrating to J2EE. • The dot-com age is all about service delivery—anytime/anywhere access to any needed service with predictable availability, reliability, performance, and security. • The SunTone Architecture Methodology focuses on how to identify, design, and deploy network services to deliver this quality of service, within the severe time constraints imposed by the dot-com space.

5. The goal of the SunTone AM is to define and deliver network services that provide the desired functionality with a high level of predictability, so that these services can be counted on by end users or by other network services.

9. The 3-Dimensional Framework, SunTone AM, and Patterns provide a clear, compelling approach that fills this need. It does not make dot-com architecture into a simple cookbook, but it does provide a frame of reference in which a talented, experienced architect can make the right decisions quickly and with confidence. • SunTone AM helps you address these challenges by being: • Architecture-centeric • Extremely focused on systemic quality • Use case driven • Service driven • Pattern based • Risk mitigating • Iterative and incremental • Design principle • Physically distributed • Logically tiered for separation of concerns • Service-based, not code-based • Assembled, not built • Implemented in layers • Consistently managed and controlled