Resumen
Computing power and network bandwidth have increased dramatically over the past decade, yet the design and implementation of complex software remain expensive and error-prone. Much of the cost and effort stems from the continuous rediscovery and reinvention of core concepts and components across the software industry. In particular, the growing heterogeneity of hardware architectures and diversity of operating system and communication platforms make it difficult to build correct, portable, efficient, and inexpensive applications from scratch. The articles in this section describe how object oriented applications frameworks provide a powerful vehicle for reuse, as well as a way to capture the essence of successful patterns, architectures, components, policies, services, and programming mechanisms. It reinforces the belief that object-oriented application frameworks will be at the core of leading-edge software technology in the twenty-first century. The extensive focus on application frameworks in the object-oriented community offers software developers an important vehicle for reuse and a means to capture the essence of successful patterns, architectures, components, and programming mechanisms. INSET: Future Trends.