Some of the descriptions of situations seem to be as vague as your average horoscope. The result is that the solution can be applied to just about anything. Patterns and Frameworks Some of the information about patterns makes them sound very similar to frameworks. You can consider a framework to be a type of a pattern, if you like. A design pattern is the description of a solution in a given context, so it must be implemented each time it is used.
Frameworks are more specialized than design patterns.
Frameworks are built for a particular application domain, and describe and application architecture for that domain. If we go back to my reminiscing, there are many patterns used to make your own clothing. The framework is the overall set of instructions for putting the patterns together to make the clothing. The instructions make no sense without the collection of patterns that make it up. Well, that was a brief description of what a pattern is, the good and the not so good.