A Comparison of Software Architectural Styles Using Aspects

To meet the demand and stay competitive, many systems were traditionally pieced together without much consideration given to their quality, modifiability, scalability, security, or maintainability. This has since littered the computing landscape with brittle applications with high maintenance and complexity. Over time, these maligned systems have propagated in size and merged or integrated to become too complex and fragile to amend or administer. To combat this misalignment, the Software Architecture (SA) discipline promises to answer and realign IT with its origins of productivity and proficiency. In this paper we will (1) introduce SA, (2) decompose SA into its unique styles and quality attributes, (3) present a case study to gauge each style, (4) and finally assess and compare SA methodologies. In this paper we will compare alternative architectures and measure their effectiveness in order to identify and compute factors that affect SA by utilizing Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP).