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Renjith
Renjith

Reputation: 3617

Queries on analysis and design

I am developing an e-commerce application using spring and struts. I am quite confused about the following.

  1. What is meant by conceptual view of the system? When I searched in the internet, I could see the diagrams with classes. But my understanding is that conceptual view is something which is derived soon after requirement gathering.
  2. What is architectural view of the system? Can I explain MVC architecture here? or should I go with something else, rather more specific to my application.

Could you please help me figure this out.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (1)

Polynomial
Polynomial

Reputation: 28316

The conceptual view (a.k.a. the conceptual schema) is a diagram of concepts that are related, from which a database model can be derived. For example, you might have some students, courses and modules in a conceptual view for a student management application. The model may contain properties about each concept, but only properties that relate to the properties of the real-life concept. You could later convert this into a normalized database format, containing tables that handle any many-to-many relationships, additional fields, etc.

An archictecural view separates parts of a system out into architecture categories. The categories may be related to a layered model (e.g. presentation, logic, data) or any other model. As you mentioned, MVC is a good example here. Such models are useful to understand how a project's resources and components might be partitioned.

Upvotes: 1

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