Editing Software framework (section)

== Examples ==

Software frameworks typically contain considerable housekeeping and utility code in order to help bootstrap user applications, but generally focus on specific problem domains, such as:

* Artistic drawing, music composition, and mechanical [[Computer-aided design|CAD]]<ref>{{citation|doi = 10.1145/98188.98197|last1 = Vlissides|first1 = J M|last2 = Linton|first2 = M A|year = 1990|title = Unidraw: a framework for building domain-specific graphical editors|journal = ACM Transactions on Information Systems|volume = 8|issue = 3|pages =237–268|s2cid = 11248368|doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last = Johnson|first = R E| title=Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications - OOPSLA '92 | chapter=Documenting frameworks using patterns | date=1992 |publisher = ACM Press|pages = 63–76| doi=10.1145/141936.141943 | isbn=0201533723 | s2cid=604969 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Financial modeling applications<ref>{{citation|last1 = Birrer|first1 = A|first2 = T|last2 = Eggenschwiler|year = 1993|work = Frameworks in the financial engineering domain: an experience report|publisher = [[Springer-Verlag]]|title = Proceedings of the European conference on object-oriented programming|pages = 21–35}}</ref>
* Earth system modeling applications<ref>{{citation|last1 = Hill|first1 = C|first2 = C|last2 = DeLuca|first3 = V|last3 = Balaji|first4 = M|last4 = Suarez|first5 = A|last5 = da Silva|title = Architecture of the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF)|journal = Computing in Science and Engineering|volume = 6|year = 2004|pages = 18–28|title-link = ESMF|doi = 10.1109/MCISE.2004.1255817|s2cid = 9311752}}</ref>
* Decision support systems<ref>{{citation|last = Gachet|first = A|year = 2003|title = Software Frameworks for Developing Decision Support Systems – A New Component in the Classification of DSS Development Tools|journal = Journal of Decision Systems|volume = 12|issue = 3|pages = 271–281|doi = 10.3166/jds.12.271-280|s2cid = 29690836}}</ref>
* Media playback and authoring
* [[Web framework]]
* [[Middleware]]
* [[Cactus Framework]] – High performance scientific computing.
* [[Application framework]] – General GUI applications.
* [[Enterprise Architecture framework]]
* [[Oracle Application Development Framework]]
* [[Laravel]] (PHP Framework)
* [[Malware]], for example [[Pipedream (toolkit)|Pipedream]]
* [[Php4delphi]]
* [[OpenSilver]] - enables legacy applications based on Microsoft [[Microsoft Silverlight|Silverlight]], [[Windows Presentation Foundation|WPF]], and [[LightSwitch]] to be ported into [[WebAssembly]] applications.