Simply put, a framework is an infrastructure shared across various ESM disciplines. The most common components are guaranteed messaging, data repository, a standardized common GUI, and an event console and correlation engine. In addition, a framework encompasses procedures and methods inherent in specific applications, but organized by the framework. Don't be fooled, though, into thinking that just because you have installed a framework, all these products will clip together into a cohesive, seamless whole.
Every framework is made up of cobbled-together services, files, applications and protocols.
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