Term Definition: implementation mechanism

An architectural mechanism used during the implementation process. They are refinements of design mechanisms , which specify the exact implementation of the mechanism, and which will also very likely employ several implementation patterns (idioms) in their construction. Again, there is not necessarily any difference in scale between the design mechanism and the implementation mechanism.

For example, one particular implementation of the inter-process communication analysis mechanism is a shared memory design mechanism utilizing a particular operating system's shared memory function calls. Concurrency conflicts (inappropriate simultaneous access to shared memory) may be prevented using semaphores, or using a latching mechanism, which in turn rest upon other implementation mechanisms.