OOPSLA '97 Workshop on

Developing Successful Object-Oriented Frameworks

OOPSLA ’97 -- Atlanta, GA

Todd Hansen, Steven Fraser, Craig Hilsenrath, and Bill Opdyke, organizers

 

Brian Foote

5 October 1997

 

FRAMEWORK EXPERIENCE

Pearl Battery Skeleton (early ‘80s)

Smaltalk Battery Framework (‘86-’87)

OSIRIS (‘91-)

SuperEgo (‘91-)


An object-oriented framework is

a collection of cooperating classes that together define a generic or template solution to a family of domain specific requirements.

 

Frameworks are often characterized by an inversion of control in which the framework plays the role of a main program in coordinating and sequencing application activity.

 

Frameworks embody design insight


Patterns tell us how to put our reusable pieces together and guide us when designing new ones

 

Abstract Classes, Frameworks, and Components are those pieces

They embody architectural insight

 

What lifecycle/people deployment practices work for people?

 

Economics...


Brian Foote foote@cs.uiuc.edu