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  1. How Do You Decide Which Framework to Use?

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the evaluation-criteria dept. · 291 comments
    GPolancic asks: "Software frameworks are increasingly popular software reuse technique, because they provide infrastructure functionalities to an application, or a layer of an application and therefore reduce the work of a software developer. Numerous complementary (for example: Struts and Hibernate) and competitive (for example: JSF vs. Struts or JSF vs. ASP.Net) software frameworks are available as both proprietary and open source software. A major precondition for the success of a software framework is their acceptance, which is related to market share or community size. On the other side, application developers need to review and select the best available software framework for their needs. Which factors do you evaluate before you decide to use a specific software framework?" "Our presumption is that software developers mostly evaluate following software framework characteristics based on:
    1. perceived ease of use (e.g. easy to learn, easy to adapt)
    2. perceived usability (e.g. improving developer performances, reducing work, faster development),
    3. perceived sustainability (e.g. perceived long term support, supporting standards, clear project directions) and
    4. perceived fit to specific developer requirements (e.g. suited language, suited functions, suited architecture).
    What are your criteria? Do you support the factors listed above? I am not asking for a preference on a specific software framework, but rather an explanation on the non-trivial task of framework selection, which might be very usable for both frameworks developers and framework users."