Framework Mania

As I mentioned in my last post, software frameworks are so deeply embedded into our lives as software architects and software developers. So, when I was assigned the task to develop a web application to automate the tedious manual tasks for the technical support team, my first reaction to such an challenging business requirement is asking myself the question, “What framework should I use?”. If nothing comes up, I will say to myself, “Aha, my chance comes” and will happy to roll up my sleeves to build one.

I guess all enthusiastic programmers are alike. Otherwise, we won’t see so many open source frameworks out there in Sourceforge, Java-Source and Apache. People just like to write more and more frameworks and secretly (or openly) hope that one day the framework will be as popular as Struts or Spring.

In fact, writing frameworks can bring many substantial benefits to the project: