What is a software framework?

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Anxious picture Anxious · Jun 3, 2010 · Viewed 320.3k times · Source

Can someone please explain me what a software framework is? Why do we need a framework? What does a framework do to make programming easier?

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Neha Choudhary picture Neha Choudhary · Oct 4, 2012

I'm very late to answer it. But, I would like to share one example, which I only thought of today. If I told you to cut a piece of paper with dimensions 5m by 5m, then surely you would do that. But suppose I ask you to cut 1000 pieces of paper of the same dimensions. In this case, you won't do the measuring 1000 times; obviously, you would make a frame of 5m by 5m, and then with the help of it you would be able to cut 1000 pieces of paper in less time. So, what you did was make a framework which would do a specific type of task. Instead of performing the same type of task again and again for the same type of applications, you create a framework having all those facilities together in one nice packet, hence providing the abstraction for your application and more importantly many applications.

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