Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems

Kind: category

Record: architecture-category:metadata-self-description-declarative-systems

Canonical: Ontology

The Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems category holds 8 architecture principles.

Listed in Principle categories, after Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts and before Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture.

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Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems

Every principle in this category is listed as a record. Each record carries its kind, its severity, the scopes it applies at and the layer it lives in, then the edge relations that join it to other records, the records that point back at it, the contracts that answer to it and the tensions it takes part in. The descriptors say how it is violated, detected, measured, repaired and enforced. Where the record carries one, an exemplar shows the shape before and after the principle is applied.

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The relations inside this category.
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    n_self_describing_architecture["Self-Describing Architecture"]
    n_self_describing_api["Self-Describing API"]
    n_self_describing_structures["Self-Describing Structures"]
    n_metadata_driven_design["Metadata-Driven Design"]
    n_declarative_configuration["Declarative Configuration"]
    n_convention_over_configuration["Convention over Configuration"]
    n_capability_declaration["Capability Declaration"]
    n_manifest_based_design["Manifest-Based Design"]
    n_self_describing_architecture --> n_capability_declaration
    n_metadata_driven_design --> n_declarative_configuration
    n_manifest_based_design --> n_self_describing_architecture
    n_manifest_based_design --> n_capability_declaration