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title: Application Frameworks
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## Application Frameworks

An Application Framework is ready-to-use software for running applications.
Application Frameworks handle common tasks that most applications do.
Application Frameworks save in development time and maintenance, because multiple application vendors pool resources for a common cause.
An Application Framework is more than a collection of its named components.
It includes unique software that integrates its components into a systems paradigm that simplifies common, difficult or repetitive tasks by using libraries of reusable code.
Each application framework solves problems with a unique set of components or in a unique way --addressing resource management for example.

### More Information:

[Application Frameworks (Wikipedia.org)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_framework)

[Web Application Frameworks (Wikipedia.org)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_framework)

[Code re-use (Wikipedia.org)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_reuse)

### Resources

[List of Rich Internet Frameworks (Wikipedia.org)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rich_Internet_application_frameworks)

[List of Web Service Frameworks (Wikipedia.org)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_service_frameworks)

[Comparison of Web Frameworks (Wikipedia.org)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_frameworks)