This template provides an outline for a view-based software architecture descr iption

document, of the style suggested by the approach in the book Software Systems

Architecture by Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods (Addison Wesley, 2005).

The text in this style is all instruction text, which you should remove as you write the

document. Once you have done this, the template is essentially a set of headings

and some pro-forma text.

This template is a superset of the content of a typical AD. If there are sections of the

template that are not relevant to your project then you should probably omit them.

Similarly if there are topics that are important to your system but not part of the

template, then you should add appropriate sections to it.

For more information about the architectural approach underpinning the template, the

concepts presented and the techniques used to create effective architectural

descr iptions, see the web site http://www.viewpoints-and-perspectives.info.