Architecture and framework

[Phillipe Rodrigues]

Difference between Architecture and framework?Please explain in simple terms

[Martijn Verburg]

I'm going to assume you mean Software Architecture (as opposed to Enterprise or Systems).

Software Architecture typically covers things like:
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* How many tiers the application has
* Whether the application is distributed or not
* Whether the application is clustered or not

It can be thought of as views, e.g. (borrowed from Wikipedia):

* Functional/logic view
* Code/module view
* Development/structural view
* Concurrency/process/thread view
* Physical/deployment view
* User action/feedback view
* Data view

Software Frameworks are skeletons of an application that can be customized by an application developer, for example Struts, Spring, Swing etc. You'd often use a framework or two to build the parts of your application in your overall architecture.

I hope that made sense, I'm sure others will chime in with something a little more well thought out than my ramblings

Cheers,
Martijn

[Phillipe Rodrigues]

FOR professional software development projects we hear the project has "abc " framework and is based on "xyz architecture"?

thus what it means "framework" and "architecture"?

[Mark Spritzler]

Originally posted by Phillipe Rodrigues:
FOR professional software development projects we hear the project has "abc " framework and is based on "xyz architecture"?

thus what it means "framework" and "architecture"?

Um, isn't that what Martijn just posted.

To me his post gave excellent definitions of architecture and framework.

Mark

[in Mkumar]

In software development, Software Architecture defines the flow of the system in other words how a system communicate with other components to get work done.....but framwork is defined rule or system.

[robson vargas]

it is easy to understand. but you should know that: framework are a specific solution to a specific problem, and architeture are all skeleton of your project, strategy to across between layer/tiers, etc. Then we can resume that frameworks are helpers on an architeture, but is possible have an architeture less frameworks.

Sorry my english, i never was good with it.

[Jimmy Clark]

a software architecture is bigger than a software framework and deals with many more issues