Secondly frameworks provide the interface definition that will actually allow components from different vendors to work together. Let me say that again in a different way. Frameworks enable the use of components. Concluding Frameworks are the future of re-usable business components. Neither of these will ever form the basis for the construction of real business applications - only the icing on the application's cake.
Frameworks enable the use of components.
Frameworks define all those things that are missing from the generic definition of components. Frameworks are the really important structure that defines the shape of the components that make it up and can be replaced. Bibliography All trademarks are acknowledged and the property of their owners.