Using Incremental Planning to Foster Application Framework Reuse

In this work, we present an approach for documenting object-oriented application frameworks and using the documentation to guide the framework instantiation process. Our approach is based on a shift from a frameworkcentered to a functionality-centered documentation, through which a tool can guide the instantiation process according to the functionality required for the new application. The fundamental idea of our work is the combination of the concept of user-tasks modeling and least commitment planning methods to guide the instantiation process. Based on these techniques, the tool is able to present the different high level activities that can be carried out when creating a new application from a framework to the developer, taking as a basis the documentation provided by the designer through instantiation rules.