Customizable Software Architecture – Approaches overview

  • All in One and feature toggles
    • Challenges: if much customization is needed
  • Branching/Forking of whole product
    • Challenges: merging with main branch in post-delivery
  • Entity-Attribute-Value-Model (EAV) for database as addition
  • Plugin Architecture
    • Challenges: “Points of Customization” (aka Extension Points) in the main product
  • Extension Approach (inheritance)
    • Separation of main product and customer-specific

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