About arc42

arc42, the Template for documentation of software and system architecture.

By Dr. Gernot Starke, Dr. Peter Hruschka and contributors.

Template Revision: 6.5 EN (based on asciidoc), Juni 2014

© We acknowledge that this document uses material from the arc 42 architecture template, http://www.arc42.de. Created by Dr. Peter Hruschka & Dr. Gernot Starke. For additional contributors see http://arc42.de/sonstiges/contributors.html

Note

This version of the template contains some help and explanations. It is used for familiarization with arc42 and the understanding of the concepts. For documentation of your own system you use better the plain version.

Literature and references

Starke-2014

Gernot Starke: Effektive Softwarearchitekturen - Ein praktischer Leitfaden. Carl Hanser Verlag, 6, Auflage 2014.

Starke-Hruschka-2011

Gernot Starke und Peter Hruschka: Softwarearchitektur kompakt. Springer Akademischer Verlag, 2. Auflage 2011.

Zörner-2013

Softwarearchitekturen dokumentieren und kommunizieren, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2012

Examples

Acknowledgements and collaborations

arc42 originally envisioned by Dr. Peter Hruschka and Dr. Gernot Starke.

Sources

We maintain arc42 in asciidoc format at the moment, hosted in GitHub under the aim42-Organisation.

Issues

We maintain a list of open topics and bugs.

We are looking forward to your corrections and clarifications! Please fork the repository mentioned over this lines and send us a pull request!

Collaborators

We are very thankful and acknowledge the support and help provided by all active and former collaborators, uncountable (anonymous) advisors, bug finders and users of this method.

Currently active

  • Gernot Starke

  • Stefan Zörner

  • Markus Schärtel

  • Ralf D. Müller

  • Peter Hruschka

  • Jürgen Krey

Former collaborators

(in alphabetical order)

  • Anne Aloysius

  • Matthias Bohlen

  • Karl Eilebrecht

  • Manfred Ferken

  • Phillip Ghadir

  • Carsten Klein

  • Prof. Arne Koschel

  • Axel Scheithauer