Component-Framework Systems

Component-Frameworks Topical Areas:

•  General

  •  Definitions: (Julie) 
    • What is a framework?
    • What is a component?
    • How do components interact with the framework?

Julie  

•  Advantages and disadvantages of frameworks? (John)
  
  

•  "Hot-spot" framework development (Algis )
  

•  Framelets (Demetrios)
  

•  Design Patterns in Frameworks (Todd)
  
  

Resources:

A leader in the field is Prof. Wolfgang Pree at the University of Constance in Germany (http://www.softwareresearch.net/site/pages/team_pre.html).   He has numerous publications that truly address the heart of framework systems.    A complete listing of his publications, most with downloadable PDF files, can be found at:

http://www.softwareresearch.net/site/pages/res_publ.html

Below is a selection of his works, stored locally (PDF format):

•  A framework system development methodology:
  
  W. Pree, "Hot-Spot-Driven Framework Development," chapter in the book "Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design," (ed.: M. Fayad, D. Schmidt, R. Johnson), Wiley & Sons, New York City, 2000
  
  
•  Framelets as architectural building blocks:
  
  W. Pree, K. Koskimies, "Framelets—Small is Beautiful," chapter in the book "Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design," (ed.: M. Fayad, D. Schmidt, R. Johnson), Wiley & Sons, New York City, 2000
  
  
•  Introduction to framelets:
  
  W. Pree, K. Koskimies, "Framelets—Small and Loosely Coupled Frameworks," ACM Computing Survey Symposium on Application Frameworks (Ed.: M. Fayad), December 1999
  
  
•  Rearchitecturing a legacy system into a framework system:
  
   W. Pree, K. Koskimies, "Rearchitecturing Legacy Systems—Concepts & Case Study," First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) ‘99 San Antonio, Texas, 22-24 February 1999
  
  
•  Enabling components to self-donfigure themselves when they are installed into a framework, including framelets:
  
  W. Pree, E. Althammer, H. Sikora, "Self-Configuring Components for Client-/Server-Applications," IEEE Workshop on Large Components, DEXA’98 Vienna, Austria, 24-28 August 1998
  
  
•  The results of a workshop discussion on software components.    Shows many different viewpoints on the definition of a component:
  
  M. Broy, A. Deimel, J. Henn, K. Koskimies, F. Plasil, G. Pomberger, W. Pree, M. Stal, C. Szyperski, "What charaterizes a software component," Software—Concepts and Tools 19(1) guest editor: W. Pree Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998
  
  
•  Component-framework systems as an improvement over "traditional" OOP:
  
  W. Pree, "Component-Based Software Development—A new Paradigm in Software Engineering?," Software—Concepts & Tools, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg/New York, December 1997
  
  
•  Design patterns and their applications in framework systems:
  
  W. Pree, "Object-Oriented Design Patterns and Hot Spot Cards," IEEE International Conference on the Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS’97), Como, Italy, 8-12 September 1997
  
  
•  Overview of component-framework systems:
  
  W. Pree, "Essentials of ComponentWare," Argentinian Symposium on Object-Orientation (ASOO’97), Buenos Aires, 11-13 August 1997
  
  
•  Design patterns in frameworks and "hot-spot" driven framewok development:
  
  W. Pree, "Essential Framework Design Patterns," Object Magazine, SIGS Publications, New York City, 7(1), March 1997
  
  
•  Another overview of component-framework systems:
  
  W. Pree, G. Pomberger, F. Kapsner, "Framework Component Systems: Concepts, Design Heuristics and Perspectives," Second International Conference on Perspectives of System Informatics (PSI ‘96), Novosibirsk, Russia, 25-28 June 1996; Conference Proceedings are published by Springer (Lecture Notes in computer science)
  
  
•  "State-of-the art" overview of framework systems (in 1996):
  
  W. Pree, "Frameworks—Trends and Perspectives," Object Magazine, SIGS Publications, New York City, 6(3), May 1996
  
•  Understanding relationships in framework systems:
  
  A. Schappert, P. Sommerlad, W. Pree, "Automated Framework Development," Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR ’95; in the realm of the ACM International Conference on Software Engineering), Seattle, Washington, 28-30 April 1995
  
  
•  Design patterns and frameworks.   Note that this paper precedes the release of the GoF "Design Patterns" book, so the discussion should be taken in its historical context. 
  
  W. Pree, "State-of-the-art Design Pattern Approaches—An Overview," Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS ‘95), Paris, 6-9 March 1995
  
  
•  Using OOP/OOD techniques in large-scale software projects.
  
  G. Pomberger, W. Pree, "Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Object-Oriented Software Development," International Symposium on Object-Oriented Methodologies and Systems (ISOOMS ‘94), Palermo, 21-23 September 1994
  
  
•  Pros and cons of using OOP/OOD techniques in large software projects:
  
  W. Pree, "Metapatterns: A Means for Capturing the Essentials of Object-Oriented Design," ECOOP ‘94 (European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming), Bologna, 4-8 July 1994
  
  
• "Meta-patterns" and framework development:
  
  W. Pree, "Framework Development and Reuse Support," in the book "Visual Object-Oriented Programming" (Ed.: M. Burnett, A. Goldberg, T. Lewis), Prentice-Hall, 1994