Instances of components

[pyssling]

I'm wondering if there is a good way to model components and actors of which there may be replicas or multiple instances?

For example, if I have an Actor who is using a chat program front-end to communicate with another Actor who is using another instance of the front-end, how would I model this exchange? Both front-ends are instances of the same component, and both talk to the same back-end?

This sort of thing is especially useful in dynamic views to show how users interact with each other through the system.

[simonbrowndotje]

In the case of actors, I would probably recommend two separate people ... one for the message sender, and one for the message receiver. There's currently no way to show instances of elements in Structurizr I'm afraid.