Tag: architecture

Hardware

Operating System

Application

Web/application server

Documentation

IDE used for development

Examples

Standards compliance

Frameworks often generates the code to achieve a common functionality reducing the time to build the application

Frameworks often provides feature rich 4th generation languages which takes less time to build an application

Frameworks, in fact, increase the time to market as these are new technologies and takes time to adapt

Frameworks allows developers to focus on the unique requirements of their application instead of spending time on application infrastructure (“plumbing”)

Framework provides almost "paint-by-numbers" level of control over the development as you know what the capabilities of the framework are, and what is provided

Frameworks promotes the quality at the design level by supporting key capabilities such as database access, security, administration etc

Frameworks provides Intgrated Development Environment (IDE) enabling efficient development, testing, troubleshooting of the build

The total number of lines of code that need to be developed for any given application is an order of magnitude less than it would otherwise be, resulting in less coding defects

Frameworks often allows application logic to run on multiple threads without conflict providing scalability

Frameworks provides configuration services to its applications and components

Frameworks provides a means to extend its behaviour

Creating a framework is simple and consumes less time

Frameworks, despite sometimes being complex if taken as a whole, bring simplicity to development by decomposing the problem space into separate elements

Upgrade to frameworks will have negative impacts to the application development as they are generally not backward compatible

The structure and design patterns provided by a framework ensure that your project is being built on solid ground, and help avoid these issues before they can occur

Frameworks can provide security features which are often required for a common class of applications

Frameworks often require a significant education to use efficiently and correctly

Frameworks cause performance impacts to applications as it checks for various scenarios to determine a path of action

Bugs and security issues in a framework can affect every application using that framework

Functionality which needs to bypass or work around deficiencies in a framework can cause more programming issues than developing the full functionality in the first place

Creating a framework is difficult and time-consuming

The learning curve for a new framework can be steep

Over time, a framework can become increasingly complex

Frameworks addresses the problems in a specific point of view

Frameworks have not been around all that long, so being a relatively new concept, they are kept out of some organizations

The learning curve for most frameworks is very steep, and on many occasions the developers assigned do not make it to the top

Frameworks are predominantly propietery and does not go well with open source

Often organizations are unwilling to adopt a framework as these are not created internally

Whether framewoks has been deveoped using the coding standard that your organization follows

What level of modularity will the framework provide and support?

What development rules will the framework enforce?

What will the learning curve be for application developers to learn the framework?