Among the approaches that have contributed to the industrialisation and optimisation of development, reuse of a common technical base for applications can generate particularly significant gains in productivity and quality of production.

Beyond the technical aspects to which application servers give a satisfactory response (distribution, scalability, elementary security, transaction handling...) a number of recurring problems can be solved with a technical framework used by all the developments. For example:

• The realisation of the presentation layer
• persistence management
• single sign-on
• application configuration and administration
• error management and exploitation help
• programming by contract
• the use of XML for data exchange , tests, simulation of interfaces...
• tests,
• logs,
• simulation of interfaces, etc.

Emerging products and technologies tackle certain of the aspects, but specific development is usually necessary to integrate these elementary frameworks and to facilitate their use with plug-ins in the development environment.

The deployment of a technical framework necessitates quality design, documentation, and robustness with exemplary performance because the framework will be integrated with other development.

Consequently, the project of creation and maintenance of frameworks is a transverse project implying methods and architecture used with the vision of an urbanist, thus taking part in the total rationalization of the Information System.

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