>>Hey All
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>>Just wanted to see what the general populations Ideas and thoughts were on the utilization of a framework. My biggest concern is if I used one would I have the ability to code my own modules and tie them in or would that cause me a masive amount of pain. Any recomendations or warnings? Pros and Cons?
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>>Thanks
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>In general, I would not recommend you try to do everything yourself, i.e., build your own framework. It is simply too much work. Unless your business is selling frameworks.
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>Hilmar.

I agree with that. It is much simpler to add your own modules subcluss exosting ones and/or override some framework subclasses methods to achive the goal, than to build your own framework. If you have the intent to modify the framework you need to choose the most flexible one, not the one which may be closer to application generator in its design. From my experience, the CodeMine framework is the most flexible one, but that's IMHO, and it is just too much work for one person to evaluate in-depth all the available commercial frameworks.