EAML - architecture modeling language for enterprise applications

A typical enterprise system comprises of a collection of applications that automate a set of business processes developed over time and distributed in distributed locations. Identifying the appropriate set of formal notations to describe the architecture aspects of an enterprise system is a challenge. Existing notations such as UML and popular ADLs serve the purpose partially. This observation has led us to define an architecture modeling language EAML to address the needs of enterprise systems. In this paper we present an overview of EAML notations and propose a set of views (expressed as diagrams) that uses these notations to describe the architecture through an example.