ARCHITECTURAL STYLES, DESIGN PATTERNS, AND OBJECTS

This article shows the relationship between software architecture and object-oriented design, and shows that neither of them subsume the oth er because they address different (if overlapping) issues and use diff erent abstraction mechanisms. The authors also argue that architectura l styles and design patterns are complimentary mechanisms for encapsul ating design expertise, and that architectural styles are probably mor e directly comparable to object-oriented methodologies than to pattern s.