Creating applications from components: a manufacturing framework design

A framework is a set of object classes that collaborate to carry out a set of responsibilities; it reuses both the high level design of a program and its implementation. Frameworks are classified by application and domain and, depending on how an application is created, as either white box or black box. The manufacturing application framework described, lets you develop software from components without programming. The framework's design generalizes the class structure which models a fixed domain application through a sequence of transformations.