Key components of WEF — builders, models, and profiles

Builders, models, and profiles comprise the key components of WEF. These three components work together to enable software automation through WEF. Here, we will explain and discuss in details what they are and what they do.

Builders

Builders are at the core of WEF technology.

There have been many definitions for builders. Our favorite is the one that defines builders as "software components, which encapsulate design patterns".

Let's look at the paradigm of software development as it maps to software patterns. Ultimately, everything a developer does in terms of software development can be defined as patterns. There are well-known patterns, simple and complex patterns, well-documented patterns, and patterns that have never been documented. Even simple, tiny code snippets can be mapped to patterns.

Builders are the components that capture these countless patterns in a standard way, and present them to developers in an easy, common, and user...