NDLI: Framework composition: problems, causes and solutions

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Mattsson, M. Bosch, J.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Bus. Adm., Univ. of Karlskrona, Ronneby, Sweden (Mattsson, M.)
Abstract	Reuse of software has been one of the main goals of software engineering for decades. With the emergence of the object-oriented paradigm, an important enabling technology for reuse of larger components became available and resulted in the definition of object-oriented frameworks. The authors', and others', experiences with frameworks have shown that frameworks indeed provide considerable reuse in framework-based application development. However, whereas framework-based application development initially included a single framework, increasingly often multiple frameworks are used in application development. These frameworks have to be composed, but the software engineer may experience a number of problems while doing this, related to (1) composition of framework control, (2) composition with legacy components, (3) framework gap, (4) overlap of framework entities, and (5) composition of entity functionality. The primary causes for these composition problems are related to (1) the cohesion between classes inside each framework, (2) the domain coverage of the frameworks, (3) the design intentions of the framework designers, and (4) the potential lack of access to the source code of the frameworks. Based on the identified problems and causes, they analyse the existing solutions and their limitations.
Starting Page	203
Ending Page	214
File Size	92582
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISBN	081868383X
DOI	10.1109/TOOLS.1997.654724
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-08-01
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Application software World Wide Web Computer science Postal services Electrical capacitance tomography Fires Resource management Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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