Patterns, Frameworks, and Middleware: Their Synergistic Relationships

The knowledge required to develop complex software has historically existed in programming folklore, the heads of experienced developers, or buried deep in the code. These locations are not ideal since the effort required to capture and evolve this knowledge is expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. Many popular software modeling methods and tools address certain aspects of these problems by documenting how a system is designed. However, they only support limited portions of software development and do not articulate why a system is designed in a particular way, which complicates subsequent software reuse and evolution. Patterns, frameworks, and middleware are increasingly popular techniques for addressing key aspects of the challenges outlined above. Patterns codify reusable design expertise that provides time-proven solutions to commonly occurring software problems that arise in particular contexts and domains. Frameworks provide both a reusable productline architecture [1] ? g...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Douglas C. Schmidt, Frank Buschmann
• Keywords: ICSE 2003, Software Engineering