A Framework and a General Purpose Library

A framework provides an architectural guidance by structuring the system in abstract classes, as well as the responsibilities and interactions. If you have a drawing application which can draw all kinds of nice things, then you can extend this application framework by new figures. There are other things that are interesting to talk about architecturally, for example, reflection, meta programming, pluggins. But again, this is stuff for separate episodes. We've taken the appropriate notes a so before we finish with this episode,. What role do they play? Play in architecting a system? How do you actually use them? It's different from libraries. The framework provides the overall structure, the overall flow, the overall metaphor for