The deployment model describes how an application is deployed across an infrastructure. The
intention of the deployment model is not to describe the infrastructure, but rather the way in which
specific components belonging to an application is deployed across it.
In the example (Deployment diagram: Example) a physical deployment of a finance application is
shown. Multiple customer/user personal computers with the runtime components Windows 2000 and
the client component of the finance application can connect via TCP/IP to any application server, of
which there are multiples. The application server/s - running SCO-Unix and the finance application -
connect via TCP/IP to the central database server - running HP-UX, Oracle and has the finance
master database on it.
Messaging and workflow between the client-PC's and between the application servers are
performed using MS- outlook and MS-Exchange. MS-Exchange supports workflow and messaging.
Example:
