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Summary: An important collection of experience papers
Review: The authors and contributors have provided an excellent collection of experiences for implementing application frameworks to solve real-world problems. I highly recommend this volume.
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Summary: The definitive reference for frameworks
Review: The object-oriented framework approach promises to dramatically reduce the cost of building new OO applications. But building a framework that can serve as the underlying skeleton for a group of applications is a demanding task; and once a framework has been built, generating a new application by specializing it appropriately, also requires considerable expertise. This three-volume collection edited by Fayad, Johnson, and Schmidt fills a long-standing gap in the OO literature by covering all aspects of frameworks. This third volume presents a number of major case studies each reporting a framework implementation or an application development. The thirty examples in this volume cover a number of important domains such as flexible manufacturing architectures, new generation control systems, concurrent engineering, multimedia telecommunications, etc. An enclosed CD-ROM allows the reader to examine many of these frameworks and applications in complete detail. Like the first two volumes, this volume will prove very useful to both academics and practitioners.
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Summary: An excellent investment
Review: The ``Application Framework'' series (building, implementing, and domain-specific applications) are truly excellent experienced-based guide on building and implementing object-oriented (OO) frameworks. Each book in the series is a gold mine; excellent examples of successful implementation at corporations from all around the world are provided. The examples practically walk one thru all steps of developing and implementing a framework. The series provides numerous invaluable technical as well as managerial tips. This is a very unique practical series and most essential for those who want to be successful in enterprise software development in 21st century. The authors/editors are well-known experts in the OO arena and that sure adds to the credibility and value of the series. I'd recommend all three books to practitioners and consultants. It is a money well invested. I also recommended the first book for a graduate course in object-oriented development.
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Summary: A gold mine of enterprise application frameworks
Review: This book helps you to reduce the cost of framework development by providing 40 case studies, documenting the experiences framework builders and users at major corporations and research labs, world-wide. Throughout, the authors extract important lessons and highlight technical and organizational implementation practices that have been proven to yield the biggest pay off. This is why I choose this book.
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Summary: Excellent guidelines to build OO Application Frameworks
Review: This book in conjunction with the books Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design and "Domain-Specific Application Frameworks: Frameworks Experience by Industry" are a series of three books that constitute a complete and necessary guide for the design and implementation of application frameworks. They are based on multiple academic and industrial contributors experience building a wide range of domain-specific application framework. These books are very easy to read and understand and you can learn from them not only what a framework and an application framework are, but also how to apply this technology to real world domains, like manufacturing, health care, distributed computing, real-time systems, simulation environments, ... First book, "Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design" introduces application frameworks, their benefits and problems. It addresses all the fundamental concepts behind OO application frameworks and provides guidelines for OO application framework development. It is organized in eight parts. Part one provides a complete overview of OO application framework technology describing what is an application framework, what are the problems and benefits of application frameworks and how to use, develop and evaluate an application framework. Part Two presents some historical application frameworks and discusses some general guidelines to increase the reusability of application frameworks. Part Three describes how to build a framework analysing a concrete domain. The rest of the book provides all the necessary information to completely build an application framework. It presents all the concepts managed in framework development, which are the different development approaches, how to test the resulting frameworks, the problems derived from integration and a question sometimes forgotten but very important, the framework documentation. Second book, "Domain-Specific Application Frameworks: Frameworks Experience by Industry" is focused in the experience of industrial and academic contributors in the development of OO application framework in different domains. Each chapter covers step by step the complete development of an application framework in manufacturing, distributed systems, real-time systems, telecommunication, multimedia, chemistry and data visualization domains. It includes the motivation developers founded to choose application framework technology, the problems they had to solve and the final solutions they developed. This book, "Implementing Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Frameworks at Work", shows step by step how to implement application frameworks in different domains. It is organized in six parts covering examples about i) Business Frameworks with different examples in sales and administrative domains, ii) Artificial Intelligence, iii) Agent Application Frameworks, presenting interesting frameworks for speech recognition, neural networks and agents. iv) Specialized tool frameworks, v) Language Specific Frameworks, vi) System Application Frameworks, which present and analyse the application of OO frameworks in combination with other methodologies as component-oriented programming, language constructs or constraint programming and vi) Experiences in Application Frameworks. This last section is very useful because analyse the lessons learned using the application framework technology.
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Summary: Lots of data
Review: This book presents more than 25 case studies in framework development. The approaches are varied. Some are very nuts&bolts, others operate at a much more philosophical level. Some of the more interesting topics involve component-based systems, hardware design, and several applications of design patterns. The whole thing, including 50 pages of end matter, weighs in over 700 pages. The writing is dense and packed with data. It's a real goldmine of information. The problem is that a goldmine, these days, typically yields one gram of gold per tonne of ore. Extracting this book's information, the real usable content, from its data is about like extracting that gram. Maybe that's appropriate, though. Framework development is not as well understood as lots of other kinds of software, and the first step in any science is to collect specimens. I've found my nuggets in this book, as other readers have found theirs, but different people find different nuggets according to their needs and interests. If you have an active interest in framework development, and if you have time and energy to distill over 650 pages of raw data on your own, this book may be for you. It really is not for the beginner or the casual reader, though.
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Summary: Lots of data
Review: This book presents more than 25 case studies in framework development. The approaches are varied. Some are very nuts&bolts, others operate at a much more philosophical level. Some of the more interesting topics involve component-based systems, hardware design, and several applications of design patterns. The whole thing, including 50 pages of end matter, weighs in over 700 pages. The writing is dense and packed with data. It's a real goldmine of information. The problem is that a goldmine, these days, typically yields one gram of gold per tonne of ore. Extracting this book's information, the real usable content, from its data is about like extracting that gram. Maybe that's appropriate, though. Framework development is not as well understood as lots of other kinds of software, and the first step in any science is to collect specimens. I've found my nuggets in this book, as other readers have found theirs, but different people find different nuggets according to their needs and interests. If you have an active interest in framework development, and if you have time and energy to distill over 650 pages of raw data on your own, this book may be for you. It really is not for the beginner or the casual reader, though.
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