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Framework vs. Shopping Cart: The Difference
Why Choose a Framework Over a Shopping Cart?
Choosing the right platform isn't easy. If you need a site up quick and without hassle, you'll need a shopping cart. Shopping cart software, in a nutshell, is a pre-defined software package with a pre-defined set of features. Shopping carts are great for relatively simple site deployments, but you're limited with what you get. You can't make as many fundamental changes. You're essentially stuck with the software's own content management implementation, for example.
A framework, specially an eCommerce framework, cannot be defined by its features. It's not a mere shopping cart that you can deploy in five minutes and have a fully operational site. Think of it as an architecture platform, an infrastructure, or simply a base, you can build, extend, and modify from. The framework is a set of tools and libraries meant to accelerate your projects, but allow you to create any custom solution you want. It doesn't even have to be specifically for an eCommerce site. The way ECF™ G5 is designed is for professional .NET developers who want the tools to create their own vision, not rely on another vendor's vision of what their business should do. You build, design, and customize your own eCommerce infrastructure, rather than rely on the whims of a typical software vendor.
There are advantages and disadvantages for both approaches, but if you're in the .NET game, ECF™ G5 offers the best approach for what you want to do and achieve. ECF™ G5 is an investment that can grow and change as your business needs evolve.
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Key Advantages for Using a Framework
> Scalability, customizations, and flexibility for more seamless third-party integrations
> Create a solution from a base set of code and tools however you want
> No feature bloat. Add, remove, or modify features or capabilities
> Full source code framed around a loosely-coupled architecture and design
> Re-usable code that can be further modified for other purposes
> An accelerant to your projects do you don't have to start from scratch
> An architecture platform and infrastructure that can change as your processes change and improve
How Does an Application Framework Help You?
An application or eCommerce framework isn't for everybody. ECF™ G5 is targeted for professional .NET developers and organizations. If you're looking for a shopping cart, out-of-box solution, then ECF™ G5 isn't really for you. However, if you're serious about your web and commerce implementations, then ECF™ G5 will give you the necessary library of tools to go beyond the shopping cart paradigm and into the realm of infinite and wide open development possibilities.
Shopping carts have their own set of goals and are great for quick and easy deployment. But if you want the power and capability to create your own solution, then a framework is the way to go.
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To learn more about our eCommerce software solutions, our ASP.NET C# source code technology, or any of the ECF™ G5 architecture & integration capabilities, visit our ECF™ G5 site at /commerce . To ask questions or to learn more, you can contact us at US +1-323-988-1071 (PST), +1-202-355-7125 (EST), or sales@mediachase.com.
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