The Magical Framework Myth IBM's San Francisco Project Brings New Hope for Enterprise Frameworks. We ve been telling this story for years. Create a magical framework with common business services shareable across all enterprise applications. Such a framework will allow organizations to share objects within and among enterprises and allow application architects to create new systems with as much as 90 percent reusable code.
Application backlogs no longer exist, and maintenance is centralized.
This is still a good story to wow em at conferences, but the time has come for us to declare victory, accept defeat, or try something else. This is not to say that frameworks are ineffective. They have been providing value at the application level for years. Clearly, the problems exist at the enterprise level. A few promising enterprise framework development efforts to provide this solution are underway.