An example of Software Architecture

The Teaching Machine consists of about 500 classes.

This is not an extremely large software system, but it is large enough that the arrangement of components is a significant factor in the ease of designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the system.

The following image shows the packages and how they relate.

The packages are arranged into 3 subsystems:

Each package contains between 1 and 25 classes.

In each package, only some classes are intended to be used outside the package. These classes constitute the interface of the package.

© Theodore S. Norvell 1996--2004.