A design of object-oriented framework repository

This paper identifies the key attributes of object-oriented frameworks that should be maintained in a framework repository. In addition, the inter-relationships among the frameworks should also be managed. Since a vertical framework is often built upon a more horizontal framework and a composite framework contains part frameworks, the information about these various relations among frameworks is important. In order to effectively maintain the relationship information, we present a systematic method of defining the relationships along with a set of modeling notations. Finally, we present the logical and physical schema of the framework repository. The logical schema shows the database/platform independent organization of the repository, where the physical schema reveals the detailed object-oriented data model of the repository. We believe this comprehensive work on framework repository provides sufficient details and design in implementing object-oriented frameworks.