Uniframe - a Framework for Developing Applications for Higher Education Institutions

The modern world requires that information access be swift and simple. This is what motivated us to develop a system that would be the centre of all the data at our faculty. Due to the size and complexity of such a system, a great deal of thought was given to the architecture and the technology that would be employed by the system. We opted for the architecture that assigns the system the role of a server that is driven on the open-source LAMP stack. The system receives user requests and only returns the data requested by the user, without having to consider how to present the data to the user. There were two possible choices when it came to the selection of the code itself: using an existing open-source framework or developing our own framework. Although using an existing framework can accelerate the process of designing and implementing systems, we decided to develop our own because that made the system independent of existing frameworks. This also promises to provide individuals (students and teachers) with a great opportunity for self-development as they participate in the development and maintenance of the framework and system. By using an array of the latest development methods and by referring to modern philosophy of programming, we have achieved system expandability ? allowing other programmers to connect to the system and develop new segments of it. We have also enabled a swift rate of system development, as well as the possibility of reusing the code.