Frameworks as web services

Abstract

Object oriented frameworks represent one of the most important current approaches in component based software development for achieving high level software reuse. Frameworks for different domains others than those provided by well known development platforms are generally developed within an organization and the people who use them belong to the same organization, although their reuse scope may be widened by making them accessible to other users. One possible approach for doing this is to establish frameworks as web services. However, converting a framework to web services is possible only if the framework needs not to be extended by inheritance or aggregation, and by declaring its interfaces. This paper describes how frameworks may be established as web services and what limitations are faced when the advantages of framework based development such as customizing a framework want to be taken. An example using a framework for the statistical domain is shown. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.