Development of an object-oriented framework for intranet-based groupware systems

In the past decade, the research of reuse technology has been studied in software engineering including class library, design pattern, framework, and component. We have focused on the object-oriented framework because it provides the large-scale reuse. The object-oriented framework is defined as reusable designs of all or part of a software system described by set of abstract classes and the way instances of those classes collaborate. It is intended to capture the functionality common to several similar applications. It has the reused business logic and defines the customized modules by framework users. They build some applications not from scratch but based on the framework. In paper, we present an application framework of an intranet-based groupware system. Our framework consists of main and subframework. The subframework includes user authentication, BBS, EDA, organization management, and e-mail framework