What is a Framework?
The
following are two commonly used definitions of a framework:
.
"A framework is a partially complete software system that
is intended to aabe instantiated.
It defines the architecture for a family of systems and aaprovides
the basic building blocks to create them. It also defines the
aaplaces were adaptations for specific
functionality should be made." aa(Buschmann
1996)
.
"A framework is a set of classes that embodies an abstract
design for aasolutions to a family
of related problems." (Johnson and Foote 1988)
Why
Framework?
RealNet Solutions Inc. has developed
.
NetView FrameworkTM
. O-R Framework
. NETReportTM Framework