PAT.Content Hosting

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	PAT	Content Hosting	Version:	0.1
	Document type:	Pattern Type	Owner:	J.A.H. Schoonderbeek

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Description

This Pattern Type belongs to "Infrastructure Sector Business Support". This pattern facilitates the storing of relatively static content, and making it available to (authorized) users in a suitable form.

Graphical Overview

This is the graphical representation of the infrastructure functions in this Pattern Type, plus their main relations:

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Pattern Type Composition

This pattern has the following mandatory and optional subfunctions, expressed in Building Block Types:

Icon	Function	WA	Inclusion	Rationale
	Content Handling	SE	mandatory	Presents and preserves content in an automated fashion.
	Presentation Engine	SE	mandatory	Formats the content (e.g. html).
	Presentation Aggregation	SE	optional	Presents content from different sources as one.
	Caching	MW	optional	In order to improve performance and/or increase the maximum load that a solution can take, caching of content may be provided in one or several places.
	Control Interface	SE	optional	Provides an interface to control the workings of the solution.

Pattern Type Neighbors

This pattern has the following mandatory and optional relations with adjacent (sub)functions, expressed in Pattern Types (PAT). Note: if the table below is empty, then there are no architecturally prescribed relations with adjacent subfunctions:

Function	Adjacency	Description
File Storage	optional	The content may be stored as a set of files (centrally or locally). This Pattern Type provides an outline for a file storage solution.
Data Management	optional	Content may be stored in a dynamic, structured store using this pattern.
Authentication & Authorization	optional	If access to the content needs to be controlled, then this pattern provides a functional overview of identity and permission validation.

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