Framework Development and Adaptation with UML

Object-oriented frameworks and product line architectures have become popular in the software industry during the 1990s. A vast number of frameworks has been developed in the industry for various domains, including graphical user interfaces (e.g. Java's Swing, Microsoft's MFC), graph-based editors (HotDraw, Stingray's Objective Views), business applications (IBM's San Francisco), electronic commerce (Sun/IBM), network servers (Java's Jeeves), just to mention few. When combined with components, frameworks provide the most promising current technology supporting large-scale reuse.