A design and implementation of object-oriented framework-based RAD tool (INTRAD)

A framework is defined as a set of reusable designs of all or part of a software system described by set of abstract classes and the way in which instances of those classes collaborate. It is intended to capture the functionality that is common to several similar applications. By developing and reusing frameworks, the reuse also encompasses design and analysis. When programmers develop applications in a specific domain using a RAD (rapid application development) tool with which frameworks are provided, they can focus their attention on their particular problem domain and do not have to start from scratch each time they write applications. In this paper, we design and implement a framework diagram and a framework-based RAD tool, called INTRAD (INTranet RAD). Also, we implement an e-mail framework for the INTRAD system, which supports the development of intranet applications