ArchiMate Relationship - Composition

Composition Relationship indicates that an object is composed of one or more other objects.

Composition is based on the UML definition, meaning the parts of the whole are created / destroyed by the whole. Thus they can only be part of a single whole. Note the two different ways of representing this relationship.

The models below show the two ways to express that the application component Financial application is composed of three other application components:

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