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So what would I think are the most important principles for building a Framework?
Here are my current ones, in no specific order. I plan on gathering a collection of these on my pages, but for now here are a few to go on.
A large percentage of the patterns, heuristics, principles for Frameworks will apply to standard software development.
1. Convention Over Configuration
2. Works out of the box
3. Fine grained objects
4. Hotspots
5. Coalescent Patterns (Composite patterns - GoF)
6. One Voice or (Too Many Cooks spoils the..)
7. Prototyping Applications
8. more on the link below..
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Tags: frameworks, design patterns, coalescent patterns