Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design

By Fayad

Book Overview

Frameworks are in effect skeletal or generic applications which can be fleshed out and customized into full-fledged software programs. A mature framework saves a business many thousands of dollars in software development costs and can be reused indefinitely. Recently, corporations have paid as much as $8 million to develop proprietary frameworks, but frameworks - like patterns - are inherently open. They are the result of distilling industry-wide practice and experience, which is what makes them so hard to build.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471248754
• ISBN13: 9780471248750
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 3.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.8" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent books to learn how to develop OOA Frameworks

This book in conjunction with the books "Domain-Specific Application Frameworks: Frameworks Experience by Industry" and "Implementing Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Frameworks at Work" are a series of three books that constitute a complete and necessary guide for the design and implementation of application frameworks. They are based on multiple academic and industrial contributors experience building a wide range of domain-specific application framework. These books are very easy to read and understand and you can learn from them not only what a framework and an application framework are, but also how to apply this technology to real world domains, like manufacturing, health care, distributed computing, real-time systems, simulation environments, ...First book, "Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design" introduces application frameworks, their benefits and problems. It addresses all the fundamental concepts behind OO application frameworks and provides guidelines for OO application framework development. It is organized in eight parts. Part one provides a complete overview of OO application framework technology describing what is an application framework, what are the problems and benefits of application frameworks and how to use, develop and evaluate an application framework. Part Two presents some historical application frameworks and discusses some general guidelines to increase the reusability of application frameworks. Part Three describes how to build a framework analysing a concrete domain. The rest of the book provides all the necessary information to completely build an application framework. It presents all the concepts managed in framework development, which are the different development approaches, how to test the resulting frameworks, the problems derived from integration and a question sometimes forgotten but very important, the framework documentation. Second book, "Domain-Specific Application Frameworks: Frameworks Experience by Industry" is focused in the experience of industrial and academic contributors in the development of OO application framework in different domains. Each chapter covers step by step the complete development of an application framework in manufacturing, distributed systems, real-time systems, telecommunication, multimedia, chemistry and data visualization domains. It includes the motivation developers founded to choose application framework technology, the problems they had to solve and the final solutions they developed. Third book, "Implementing Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Frameworks at Work", shows step by step how to implement application frameworks in different domains. It is organized in six parts covering examples about i) Business Frameworks with different examples in sales and administrative domains, ii) Artificial Intelligence, iii) Agent Application Frameworks, presenting interesting frameworks for speech recognition, neural networks an

An essential reading for both the business and the research

This three volume set distils the experience of a number of software practitioners, project managers, application engineers, researchers, and academics in dealing with framework-based software development. It offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of the theory and practice of building and using application frameworks.The three volumes address the needs both of the business and of the research. They suggest practical solutions to recurrent development problems and point out hot research topics.In particular, Volume 1 "Building Application Frameworks" highlights the difficulties and draws the path towards the successful development of effective application frameworks. Each chapter has a final section with review questions and project proposals, which helps teachers and students to better assess the mastery of new concepts. Volume 2 "Implementing Application Frameworks" comprises a number of case studies that exemplify how to develop complex frameworks by exploiting the synergy of advanced techniques and methodologies, such as design patterns, architectural styles, software components, multi-agent systems, and more.Volume 3 "Domain-Specific Application Frameworks" emphasises the best practice in software development and reuse for a variety of application domains.Volumes 2 and 3 include two CD-ROMs with case studies, sample models, framework code, and demos.

A handbook for building and documenting frameworks

Everybody speaks about frameworks but few of them really know how to build a successful framework. This book serves as a very useful guide for building and documenting frameworks. Especially you can find information about how to find a suitable framework for a specific application, how to understand its architecture and how to adapt it to your particular requirements.

An important three volume set on an important subject!

Object-oriented frameworks, reusable semi-finished software architectures, have made documented improvements on both software quality and reuseability. This three-volume set of books is an absolute neccessity for those who want to be at the cutting-edge of successfull software development.

An outstanding collection of work - essential reading!

Building Application Frameworks is an essential reference for anyone involved in moderate to large scale software development. Application Frameworks are an important consideration for anyone involved in software engineering today. Software teams have been building application frameworks from the beginning. However, the process is still very complex. This book provides a variety of experience and research perspectives which demonstrate the right way to go about application framework design and development. The book also provides generous examples of the pitfalls which jeopardize any software development activity and how those risks can be avoided.