JSE_V2_N2_A1 R. Thirumalai Selvi N.V. Balasubramanian George T. Manohar A. Adham Sheriff Journal on Software Engineering 2230 – 7168 2 2 1 5 ASP, CMS, Component framework, Traditional framework, TYPO3 A framework is a set of common and prefabricated software building blocks that programmers can use, extend or customize for specific computing solutions. Frameworks are built from collection of objects so both the design and code of the framework may be reused. A framework does several things it makes it easier to work with complex technologies; it ties together a bunch of discrete objects/components into something more useful. A number of frameworks are available in the Open Source community. In this paper we discuss about the comparison between two various frameworks like ASP and TYPO3.One is a traditional and another one is a component-based framework. The paper presents the findings of a small study of projects undertaken by students in the web publishing area. Finally we come to a conclusion that while developing web application, which is the best framework. October - December 2007 Copyright © 2007 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=514