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Application Environment versus Application Landscape diagrams

BenAvdicevic
Honored Contributor

Application Environment versus Application Landscape diagrams

Hi Mega community,

 

We're finding that many architects in our organization use Application Environment diagram to model  application landscape - instead of a context diagram.

 

Application Environment is clearly meant to be a hub-and-spoke type diagram - with subject application in the middle.  Objects it interacts with go around it.  And generally - you don't show level 2 or level 3 interactions.  Finally - you don't show interaction between "partner" applications.

But HOPEX doesn't restrict the application environment diagram in any way.  For example,

 

  • You can add multiple subject applications
  • You can add interactions between Partner objects 
  • The diagram does not have to look like hub-and-spoke at all.

 

Application landscape diagram is quite different. 

  • There isn't a subject
  • It is not a hub-and-spoke diagram 
  • You can model interactions between any objects

 

So, instead of using an Application System object to model a landscape - many of our architects create an Application Environment and then model a landscape.  This creates problems from standardization and consistency.     We find we have to re-educate the team on Application Environment diagrams a lot to avoid this.

 

I just wanted to call out this as an issue - and see if other users have seen something similar in their organizations.

 

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BenAvdicevic
Honored Contributor

Any thoughts on this?  Are other organizations having a similar challenge with these two diagrams?