Task-Driven Specialization Support for Object-Oriented Frameworks

Data Views (a generalization of the MVC concept). Their model resembles ours in that they identify the possibility to have (sub)tasks as a way to define functions needed to implement a pattern. They also define parameterized product texts corresponding to our code snippets. Experiences We have applied FRED to the development of a framework-specific programming environment for an industrial Java framework intended for creating GUI components for a family of network management systems. The framework comprises of about 300 classes. After analyzing the specialization problems of the framework, a collection of 13 patterns was defined to cover the specialization interface of the framework. This work required about 5 man-months for a person not initially familiar with the framework. The experience showed that the FRED patterns are sufficiently powerful to define the specialization interface of a real framework, and that FRED scales up for industry-sized frameworks. Several other benefits we...