ApplicationComponent
An application component represents an encapsulation of application functionality aligned to implementation structure, which is modular and replaceable. It encapsulates its behavior and data, exposes services, and makes them available through interfaces.

An application component is a self-contained unit. As such, it is independently deployable, re-usable, and replaceable. An application component performs one or more application functions.

It encapsulates its contents: its functionality is only accessible through a set of application interfaces. Cooperating application components are connected via application collaborations.

An application component may be assigned to one or more application functions, business processes, or business functions. An application component has one or more application interfaces, which expose its functionality. Application interfaces of other application components may serve an application component. The name of an application component should preferably be a noun.

The application component element is used to model entire applications (i.e., deployed and operational IT systems, as defined by the TOGAF framework) and individual parts of such applications, at all relevant levels of detail.

: ApplicationComponent (architecture_autodiagram)
Figure 48 : ApplicationComponent (architecture_autodiagram)
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