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The article presents information on designing component-based framework solutions. Designing systems using proven solutions such as patterns and frameworks improves the productivity of software engineers. Achieving productivity and artifact improvement affects several stakeholders in the organization, directly and indirectly. The list of stakeholders tends to include, software architects, developers, IT managers, business managers, and ultimately the customer. Within the software industry several pundits have articulated and presented initial reusable artifacts and patterns. Some of the early pattern work, mostly concerning human interface patterns, was done by Ward Cunningham and Kent Beck in 1987. Several years later more discussions at conferences such as OOPSLA were held with individuals such as Erich Gamma and Richard Helm. Architectural patterns or frameworks provide descriptions of the software architecture. Typically frameworks provide key decision points in the software to help comprise the architecture. In the Unified Modeling Language (UML) there are several ways to view software architecture, often referred to as the five views of software architecture. The article illustrates only the logical view of the architecture for the Observable Party Account framework. The article presents several examples which illustrates the process of using the UML to design a component-based framework using existing patterns.

The article announces 2010 awards given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT), including the Outstanding Research Award presented to Eric Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, the Influential Educator Award given to Leon Osterweil, and the Distinguished Service Award given to Mary Lou Soffa.

Discusses several issues about computer programming. Information on Erich Gamma, author of 'Design for Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software' and lead developer of the Eclipse project in Zurich, Switzerland; Details on the revision of the Quincy 2000 computer program language; Reasons for updating Quincy 2000.

The company Eclipse's Open-Source Development platform entered a new era recently. At the first Eclipse developer conference, leading Eclipse developers praised the newly independent Eclipse organization and offered glimpses of things to come in the next version of the platform, 3.0. Erich Gamma, Java Development Tools leader for Eclipse, and John Wie-gand, Eclipse platform leader, said in addresses that the new Eclipse Foundation will foster some of the values of the open-source movement: meritocracy, open participation and transparency.