A Comparative Study of Architectural Patterns used for website or enterprise Applications

Abstract

An architectural pattern provides the solution for designing a software architecture. For a particular functionality and nature of software, architectural patterns differ. An architectural pattern conveys only the image of the system, not the details about it. Even though we have many architectural patterns, choosing the right one for the system is tricky. It not only depends on the functionality to be delivered, but the technology and future use is also considered so as to minimize the rework cost as each architecture pattern defines the way to build an architecture which then defines the system.