Software Architectures in the Essential Meta Model are used to capture the relationships and dependencies that exist between the main software components of an application. This short tutorial introduces Software Architectures and describes how to capture them in Essential Architecture Manager.

Purpose 

Application Providers have a high level software architecture defined against them to capture the relevant software components - and the dependencies between them – that are used to deliver the application. 

Tasks 

Creating a Software Architecture is like creating any other architecture in Essential (see Working with Architectures): 

• Drag a new Software Component Usage onto the canvas 
• Open it and select the Software Component that this is a usage of. 
• Drag from one Component to another on the canvas to create dependencies between Software Components in this architecture.