Architectural Principles for Service Cloud Applications

Service-oriented cloud-based web and mobile applications have placed new expectations and demands on software architectural design. In Maciaszek et al. (2014) we proposed a new meta-architecture as a reference model for developing such applications. The seven-layer meta-architecture is called STCBMER (Smart Client - Template - Controller - Bean - Mediator - Entity - Resource). This paper concentrates on the description of principles that guide architects of specific service cloud applications that aim at conforming to STCBMER or similar meta-architectures. The principles are derived from a predecessor meta-architecture called PCBMER (Presentation - Controller - Bean - Mediator - Entity - Resource) and are extended based on a comparative evaluation of principles in two other meta-architectures - SANTA (Solution Architecture for N-Tier Applications) and MAAG (Microsoft Application Architecture Guide).

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